Waukesha Times

There were 41 Pacific Islander students enrolled in Waukesha County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 12.8% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Waukesha County schools welcomed 59,391 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 113 schools in Waukesha County, Hamilton High School recorded the highest enrollment of Pacific Islander students in the 2023-24 school year, with 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.

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.

School name	% of Pacific Islander students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Arrowhead High School	0.1%	2,038
Big Bend Elementary School	0.2%	488
Brookfield Central High School	0.1%	1,172
Butler Middle School	0.1%	803
Dixon Elementary School	0.5%	672
Hamilton High School	0.4%	1,564
Horning Middle School	0.2%	560
Les Paul Middle School	0.2%	594
Lowell Elementary School	0.3%	364
Maple Avenue Elementary School	0.2%	426
Meadowbrook Elementary School	0.4%	260
Merton Intermediate School	0.6%	362
Merton Primary School	0.2%	547
Muskego High School	0.1%	1,651
New Berlin West Middle/High School	0.4%	1,028
North High School	0.3%	960
Park View Middle School	0.1%	747
Rolling Hills Elementary School	0.2%	447
Ronald Reagan Elementary School	0.2%	677
Silver Lake Intermediate School	0.2%	639
South High School	0.1%	879
Summit Elementary School	0.2%	484
Swanson Elementary School	0.1%	806
Templeton Middle School	0.1%	744
Waukesha East Alternative School	1.4%	74
White Rock School	0.4%	285
eAchieve Academy - Wisconsin	0.2%	658