Southern Wisconsin Times

There were 435 Hispanic students enrolled in Green County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 5.6% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Green County welcomed 5,072 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 8.6% of the student body, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the six districts in Green County, Monroe School District recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 290 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Green County.

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.

District	% of Hispanic Students	Total Enrollment
Albany School District	5.5%	271
Brodhead School District	7.5%	1,016
Juda School District	2.8%	283
Monroe School District	12.9%	2,241
Monticello School District	3.3%	300
New Glarus School District	3.8%	961