Central Wisconsin News

There were 324 Asian students enrolled in Wood County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Wood County welcomed 11,258 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 2.9% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Wood County, Lincoln High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 67 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
Alexander Middle School	0.8%	359
Central Oaks Academy	0.9%	116
Grant Elementary School	3.5%	604
Grove Elementary School	14.2%	197
Howe Elementary School	5.9%	338
Humke Elementary School	0.3%	339
John Edwards Middle School	2%	100
Lincoln High School	4.9%	1,380
Madison Elementary School	1.4%	282
Marshfield High School	2.1%	1,242
Marshfield K4	0.5%	195
Marshfield Middle School	2.8%	563
Mead Elementary School	8.5%	296
Nekoosa High School	1.4%	295
Port Edwards Education Heuer Elementary School	1.9%	216
THINK Academy-Together Helping INspire Kids	0.5%	208
WISE Academy	0.5%	209
WRPS Four-year-old Kindergarten and PK Early Childhood	4.7%	233
Washington Elementary School	1.6%	314
Washington Elementary School	7.2%	314
Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School	5.7%	924
Woodside Elementary School	2.6%	349