Eau Claire, Altoona talk about challenges from declining enrollment

CHIPPEWA VALLEY — Throughout Wisconsin’s 421 school districts, roughly 70% have seen enrollment decline over the past several years. This comes according to data from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s 2025 School Scorecard Dashboard. According to a Wisconsin Policy Forum report released in October 2023, enrollment counts back in the 2020-21 school year around the state dropped by …