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There were 1,373 white students enrolled in Marquette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.2% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Marquette County welcomed 1,593 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 86.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Marquette County, Westfield Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 299 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
Endeavor Elementary School	65.7%	67
Forest Lane Community School	87.7%	268
High Marq Environmental Charter School	93.9%	33
Montello Junior/Senior High School	91%	256
Montello Virtual Charter School	91.7%	36
Oxford Elementary School	85.2%	142
Westfield Area High School	82.8%	291
Westfield Area Middle School	82.9%	164
Westfield Elementary School	89%	336