Northwoods Reporter

There were five Pacific Islander students enrolled in Sawyer County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 25% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Sawyer County welcomed 2,154 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Sawyer County, Hayward Center for Individualized Learning and Hayward High 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
Hayward Center for Individualized Learning	0.9%	229
Hayward High School	0.4%	529
Hayward Middle School	0.3%	347