Northwoods Reporter

There were 17 Asian students enrolled in Rice Lake Area School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 2,186 students were enrolled in the Rice Lake Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the district.

Rice Lake Area School District roughly covers 13 schools within Barron County and has a main office in Rice Lake.

Among the 13 schools in Rice Lake Area School District, Rice Lake High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Asian Students	Asian %
2022-23	2,186	17	0.8%
2021-22	2,197	16	0.7%
2020-21	2,234	24	1.1%
2019-20	2,259	31	1.4%
2018-19	2,276	35	1.5%
2017-18	2,280	40	1.8%
2016-17	2,254	37	1.6%
2015-16	2,243	33	1.5%
2014-15	2,215	28	1.3%
2013-14	2,277	21	0.9%
2012-13	2,327	22	1%
2011-12	2,358	24	1%
2010-11	2,375	21	0.9%
2009-10	2,388	37	1.6%
2008-09	2,395	31	1.3%
2007-08	2,510	32	1.3%