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There were 51 Asian students enrolled in Pierce County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 15.9% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Pierce County welcomed 7,624 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.7% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 25 schools in Pierce County, Meyer Middle School and River Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of eight 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 Asian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Ellsworth Elementary School	0.6%	730
Ellsworth High School	0.2%	519
Ellsworth Middle School	1.3%	375
Greenwood Elementary School	0.5%	392
Meyer Middle School	1.1%	738
Prescott 4K	1.3%	78
Prescott High School	0.9%	430
Prescott Middle School	1.1%	275
River Falls 4 Children	1.3%	160
River Falls High School	0.7%	1,112
River Falls Public Montessori Academy	0.5%	190
Rocky Branch Elementary School	0.7%	428
Spring Valley Elementary School	0.9%	354
Spring Valley High School	1.5%	200
Spring Valley Middle School	1.3%	154
Westside Elementary School	0.3%	408