Ozaukee County News

There were nine Pacific Islander students enrolled in Ozaukee County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 12.5% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Ozaukee County welcomed 12,405 students during the 2022-23 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 27 schools in Ozaukee County, Dunwiddie Elementary School, Oriole Lane Elementary School, and Thorson Elementary 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
Dunwiddie Elementary School	0.6%	351
Grafton High School	0.1%	715
Homestead High School	0.1%	1,265
Kennedy Elementary School	0.2%	483
Oriole Lane Elementary School	0.4%	511
Thorson Elementary School	0.4%	548