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There were 38 Asian students enrolled in Waupaca County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 19.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Waupaca County welcomed 7,696 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.5% of the student body, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the seven districts in Waupaca County, New London School District recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 18 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Waupaca County.

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.

District	% of Asian Students	Total Enrollment
Clintonville School District	0.5%	1,180
Iola-Scandinavia School District	0.2%	571
Marion School District	0.7%	458
New London School District	0.9%	2,102
Waupaca School District	0.5%	1,999