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There were 79 Asian students enrolled in Columbia County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.6% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Columbia County welcomed 8,696 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 33 schools in Columbia County, Lodi Primary School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 10 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
Cambria Friesland Elementary School	0.7%	147
Columbus Elementary School	1.1%	438
Columbus High School	2.3%	385
Columbus Middle School	0.4%	265
Discovery Charter School	1.4%	73
Fall River High School	0.4%	265
Lewiston Elementary School	1.1%	94
Lodi Elementary School	2.6%	230
Lodi High School	1.1%	451
Lodi Middle School	2.4%	335
Lodi Primary School	2.5%	395
Muir Elementary School	0.7%	422
Ouisconsing School of Collaboration	1.3%	80
Portage High School	0.9%	706
Poynette Elementary School	0.7%	412
Poynette High School	0.3%	307
Poynette Middle School	0.4%	276
Rio Elementary School	0.6%	170
Rio Middle/High School	0.5%	190
Spring Hill Elementary School	1.2%	608
Wayne Bartels Middle School	1.2%	406
Wisconsin Dells Middle School	0.3%	387
Woodridge Elementary School	0.5%	220