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There were 143 Hispanic students enrolled in Marquette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.1% more 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, Hispanic students comprised 9% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Marquette County, Westfield Area High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 28 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Endeavor Elementary School	23.9%	67
Forest Lane Community School	6.3%	268
High Marq Environmental Charter School	6.1%	33
Montello Junior/Senior High School	5.5%	256
Montello Virtual Charter School	8.3%	36
Oxford Elementary School	10.6%	142
Westfield Area High School	9.6%	291
Westfield Area Middle School	12.8%	164
Westfield Elementary School	8%	336