SLO Reporter

The graduation rate of white students at Independence High School in the 2017-2018 school year increased over the previous school year’s graduation rate of 90 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	Foster Youth	100	25
1	White	100	90
3	Filipino	94.1	89.7
4	Asian	93	91.6
5	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	92.8	82.4
6	Black or African American	80	83.3
7	Hispanic or Latino	77.7	74.7
8	Students with Disabilities	67.2	70.9
9	English Learners	65	47.3
10	Two or More Races	62.5	66.7
11	American Indian or Alaska Native	0	100
11	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0	100