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There were seven Pacific Islander students enrolled in La Crosse 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 La Crosse County welcomed 15,378 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Pacific Islander students comprised 0% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 38 schools in La Crosse County, Holmen Middle 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
Central High School	0.1%	1,008
Holmen Middle School	0.2%	892
Onalaska High School	0.1%	933
Viking Elementary School	0.3%	384
West Salem High School	0.2%	605
West Salem Middle School	0.2%	564