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There were 39 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Outagamie County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 21.9% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Outagamie County welcomed 31,546 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 72 schools in Outagamie County, Badger Elementary 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
4K Center for Literacy	0.3%	291
Appleton Community 4K	0.7%	750
Badger Elementary School	3.4%	325
Black Creek Elementary School	0.3%	378
Columbus Elementary School	0.8%	132
Highlands Elementary School	0.8%	530
Houdini Elementary School	0.2%	546
Huntley Elementary School	0.2%	649
Janssen Elementary School	0.3%	385
Kaukauna High School	0.1%	1,261
Kimberly High School	0.3%	1,595
Mapleview Intermediate School	0.2%	432
North High School	0.2%	1,561
Stephen Foster Elementary Charter	0.4%	250
West High School	0.2%	1,157
Wilson Middle School	0.3%	364