Southern Wisconsin Times

There were 15 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Rock County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 11.8% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Rock County welcomed 25,150 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 64 schools in Rock County, Aldrich Intermediate School, Gaston Elementary School, and Memorial High 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
Aldrich Intermediate School	0.5%	408
East Elementary School	0.2%	427
Edgerton Community Elementary School	0.1%	844
Fran Fruzen Intermediate School	0.2%	461
Gaston Elementary School	0.8%	261
Kennedy Elementary School	0.3%	372
Memorial High School	0.1%	1,417
Monroe Elementary School	0.3%	354
Parker High School	0.1%	1,250
Parkview Junior High School	0.7%	151
Washington Elementary School	0.3%	400
West Elementary School	0.3%	320