Madison Reporter

There were 36 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Dane County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 16.1% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Dane County schools welcomed 77,279 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised less than 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 171 schools in Dane County, Sun Prairie Four Kids recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2023-24 school year, with three 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of Pacific Islander students enrollment	Total Enrollment
C. H. Bird Elementary School	0.3%	328
Cottage Grove Elementary School	0.3%	305
Country View Elementary School	0.3%	374
East High School	0.1%	1,644
Granite Ridge School	0.2%	477
Innovative & Alternative High School	0.7%	139
LaFollette High School	0.1%	1,527
Meadow View Elementary School	0.2%	417
Memorial High School	0.1%	2,005
Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School	0.4%	454
Monona Grove High School	0.1%	1,144
New Century School	0.8%	124
Oregon High School	0.1%	1,284
Oregon Middle School	0.2%	639
Park Elementary School	0.4%	250
Pope Farm Elementary School	0.5%	403
Sandhill Elementary School	0.2%	410
Stoughton High School	0.1%	864
Sun Prairie Four Kids	1%	301
Sun Prairie High School	0.2%	1,275
Sun Prairie West High School	0.1%	1,333
Taylor Prairie Elementary School	0.4%	279
Verona Area High School	0.1%	1,789
Waubesa Intermediate School	0.2%	512
Waunakee Heritage Elementary School	0.4%	575
West Middleton Elementary School	0.3%	338
Windsor Elementary School	0.2%	512
Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA)	0.1%	1,336