Chippewa Valley Times

There were 24 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Eau Claire County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Eau Claire County welcomed 14,288 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Eau Claire County, Longfellow Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six 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
Altoona High School	0.2%	564
Davey Elementary School	0.3%	356
DeLong Middle School	0.2%	893
Eau Claire Virtual School	0.8%	124
Flynn Elementary School	0.9%	235
Lakeshore Elementary School	0.6%	328
Longfellow Elementary School	2.3%	257
McKinley Charter School	0.7%	141
Meadowview Elementary School	0.3%	393
Memorial High School	0.1%	1,552
North High School	0.2%	1,663
Prairie Ridge Early Learning School	0.4%	236
South Middle School	0.3%	791