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There were 537 students enrolled in Cochrane-Fountain City School District schools in the 2023-24 school year, 4.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2023-24 school year, 51.7% of them were girls, and 48.3% were boys.

Data also shows that most of the students were white, accounting for 92.1% of the Cochrane-Fountain City School District total enrollment.

Cochrane-Fountain City School District covers two schools within Buffalo County, with its main office in Fountain City.

Among the two schools in the Cochrane-Fountain City School District, Cochrane-Fountain City Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of 285 students in the 2023-24 school year.

Nearly 830,000 students were enrolled in Wisconsin schools in the 2021-22 school year. This is a 0.85% decrease from the year before. In sharp contrast to declining public school figures, enrollment in charter schools rose 4.5% to more than 52,000.

In 2022, there was roughly one teacher for every 14 students in a Wisconsin classroom, compared to the national average of 1:16. AAA State of Play considered Wisconsin to have the 14th best teacher to student ratio in the U.S.

School	Total Enrollment
Cochrane-Fountain City Elementary School	285
Cochrane-Fountain City High School	252