Outagamie County Education: 44 Pacific Islander students were enrolled in schools in 2023-24 school year

Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Oficial website

By Fox Cities News

Nov 4, 2024

There were 44 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Outagamie County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 12.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Outagamie County schools welcomed 31,380 students during the 2023-24 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 2023-24 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

Ethnicities in Outagamie County in 2023-24 School Year

Enrollment in Outagamie County Schools During 2023-24 School Year

School name	% of Pacific Islander students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Appleton Community 4K	0.7%	765
Badger Elementary School	3.6%	305
Columbus Elementary School	0.8%	132
East High School	0.1%	1,327
Einstein Middle School	0.2%	559
Franklin Elementary School	0.3%	297
Greenville Elementary School	0.2%	611
Highlands Elementary School	1.2%	499
Hortonville Area K4 School	0.9%	113
Houdini Elementary School	0.2%	560
Janssen Elementary School	0.3%	375
Kimberly High School	0.2%	1,571
North High School	0.2%	1,612
Seymour High School	0.2%	595
Stephen Foster Elementary Charter	1.2%	253
West High School	0.2%	1,118
Wilson Middle School	0.5%	381