Northwoods Reporter

There were five Pacific Islander students enrolled in Polk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 66.7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Polk County welcomed 6,694 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 26 schools in Polk County, Saint Croix Falls Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two 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
Osceola Elementary School	0.3%	397
Saint Croix Falls Elementary School	0.6%	347
Saint Croix Falls High School	0.3%	342
Saint Croix Falls Middle School	0.3%	332