Madison Reporter

There were 31 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Dane County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 19.2% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Dane County welcomed 77,064 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 171 schools in Dane County, LaFollette High School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four 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 Pacific Islander students enrollment	Total Enrollment
C. H. Bird Elementary School	0.3%	340
Central Heights Middle School	0.2%	472
Country View Elementary School	0.5%	396
East High School	0.1%	1,649
Kromrey Middle School	0.1%	1,191
LaFollette High School	0.3%	1,482
Lincoln Elementary School	0.3%	374
Meadow View Elementary School	0.3%	362
Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School	0.2%	430
Monona Grove High School	0.1%	1,083
Oregon High School	0.1%	1,269
Park Elementary School	0.4%	252
Pope Farm Elementary School	0.2%	410
River Bluff Middle School	0.2%	582
Stoughton High School	0.1%	875
Sun Prairie High School	0.2%	1,274
Sun Prairie West High School	0.1%	1,294
Taylor Prairie Elementary School	0.8%	251
Toki Middle School	0.2%	578
Verona Area High School	0.1%	1,802
Verona Area K4	0.4%	281
West High School	0.1%	2,147
West Middleton Elementary School	0.3%	364
Windsor Elementary School	0.2%	530