North Coast California News

The graduation rate of American Indian and Alaska Native students at SIATech in the 2017-2018 school year decreased from the previous school year’s graduation rate of 38.5 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

According to CDE data, graduation rates indicate an increase in disproportional academic performance between white, Black, Latino, and English learner students.

According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 50 states where data was collected, students with disabilities were at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates by student group.

Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELs and non-ELs and that these inequities explain achievement gaps in middle and early high school” in The Effects of English Learner Classification on High School Graduation and College Attendance.

Ranking	Student Group	Graduation Rate 2017-2018	Previous Year Graduation Rate 2016-2017
1	Filipino	77.8	33.3
2	Two or More Races	46	35.4
3	Black or African American	45.7	37.4
4	Students with Disabilities	45	54.9
5	White	41	40
6	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	37.9	34.7
7	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	37.5	16.7
8	Hispanic or Latino	35.7	34.7
9	Asian	33.3	42.9
10	Foster Youth	23.1	50
11	English Learners	19.6	24.3
12	American Indian or Alaska Native	10	38.5