SW Wisconsin News

There were nine Pacific Islander students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 28.6% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Grant County welcomed 6,949 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Fennimore Elementary School, Fennimore High School, and Westview 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
Cassville Elementary School	1.1%	89
Cassville High School	1.2%	83
Cuba City Middle School	0.7%	144
Fennimore Elementary School	0.5%	384
Fennimore High School	0.9%	231
Westview Elementary School	0.5%	448