Racine Sun

There were 13 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Racine County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Racine County welcomed 25,052 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 52 schools in Racine County, Burlington High School and Wadewitz Elementary 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
Burlington High School	0.2%	1,029
Gifford School	0.1%	1,411
Gilmore Fine Arts School	0.1%	695
Jerstad-Agerholm School	0.1%	899
Mitchell Middle School	0.1%	1,083
Park High School	0.1%	1,038
Trailside Elementary School	0.3%	338
Union Grove High School	0.1%	1,045
Wadewitz Elementary School	0.4%	546
Walden III High School	0.1%	715
Waterford High School	0.1%	952