Northwoods Reporter

There were 13 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Ashland County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 85.7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Ashland County welcomed 2,460 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Ashland County, Chequamegon Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 11 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
Chequamegon Middle School	8.5%	129
Lake Superior Elementary School	0.3%	603