SLO Reporter

The American Indigenous and Alaskan Inuit student group in the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District had a higher graduation rate, 100 percent, than the overall district's rate of 95.2 percent for the 2017-2018 school year, 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-learning students.

According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in 2019 American Indian and Alaska Native students were the most at risk of dropping out.

Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELsand 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.

Rank	Student Group	Student Group Graduation Rate	Statewide Graduation Rate
1	Asian	85.7	94.9
2	Filipino	75	93.5
3	White	97.9	92.1
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	97.5	88.6
4	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	100	88.6
6	Hispanic or Latino	93.2	86.5
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	100	82.8
8	Black or African American	85.7	82.2
9	Foster Youth	87.5	74.1
10	Students with Disabilities	79.4	67.1
11	English Learners	50	56.7