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Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 2.5% of Chippewa County's student body in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

There were 214 Hispanic students enrolled in Chippewa County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Chippewa County welcomed 8,539 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 2.5% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 27 schools in Chippewa County, Chippewa Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 36 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.

Ethnicities in Chippewa County in 2022-23 School Year
White [91.7%]Ethnicities <5% [8.3%]
Enrollment in Chippewa County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Hispanic students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Bloomer Elementary School1%498
Bloomer High School1.2%426
Bloomer Middle School1.2%332
Boyd Elementary School9.7%62
Cadott Elementary School1.1%442
Cadott High School2.7%258
Cadott Junior High School2.9%102
Chippewa Falls High School2.5%1,458
Chippewa Falls Middle School2.4%1,064
Cornell Elementary School2.8%214
Cornell High School3.7%109
Cornell Middle School3.7%81
Halmstad Elementary School4.5%379
Hillcrest Elementary School3.2%374
Holcombe Elementary School1.7%118
Holcombe High School1.2%87
Korger-Chestnut3.5%346
Parkview Elementary School3.1%392
Southview Elementary School3.2%310
Stanley Elementary School3.2%436
Stanley-Boyd High School2.7%339
Stanley-Boyd Middle School2.4%252
Stillson Elementary School2.7%334

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