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Barron County Education: 5 Pacific Islander students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

There were five Pacific Islander students enrolled in Barron 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 Barron County welcomed 7,444 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 36 schools in Barron County, Riverview Middle 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.

Ethnicities in Barron County in 2022-23 School Year
White [86.1%]Ethnicities <5% [7.8%]Hispanic [6.1%]
Enrollment in Barron County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Pacific Islander students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Barron High School0.3%316
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School0.5%207
Rice Lake High School0.1%714
Riverview Middle School0.6%317

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