WC Wisconsin News

There were 21 Asian students enrolled in Clark County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 23.5% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Clark County welcomed 4,654 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.5% of the student body, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the eight districts in Clark County, Colby School District recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Clark County.

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.

District	% of Asian Students	Total Enrollment
Abbotsford School District	0.6%	798
Colby School District	0.6%	936
Granton Area School District	0.4%	226
Greenwood School District	0.3%	365
Loyal School District	0.2%	484
Neillsville School District	0.4%	861
Owen-Withee School District	0.7%	446
Thorp School District	0.2%	538