Chippewa Valley Times

There were 5,023 white students enrolled in Dunn County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Dunn County welcomed 5,994 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 83.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Dunn County, Menomonie High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 815 students.

According to the Nation’s Report Card 2022 results, Black fourth-graders in Wisconsin scored an average of 40 points lower than their white colleagues in both Math and Reading.

Data also showed that Black students were three times as likely to fail the Reading test than white pupils in the state. The gap is even larger in Mathematics, with Black students failing five times more than white students.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Boyceville High School	89.1%	210
Boyceville Middle School	94.2%	103
Colfax Elementary School	93.9%	393
Colfax High School	93.1%	334
Downsville Elementary School	84%	94
Elk Mound High School	88.7%	344
Elk Mound Middle School	87.4%	373
Knapp Elementary School	85.9%	92
Menomonie High School	80.6%	1,011
Menomonie Middle School	78.3%	696
Mound View Elementary School	83.4%	493
Oaklawn Elementary School	86.4%	381
Ridgeland-Dallas Elementary School	82.7%	75
River Heights Elementary School	66.6%	437
School District of the Menomonie Area 4K	81.3%	198
Tiffany Creek Elementary School	91.8%	379
Wakanda Elementary School	80.8%	381