San Francisco Sun

The graduation rate of American Indian and Alaska Native students at Independence High School in the 2017-2018 school year increased over the previous school year’s graduation rate of 83.3 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	American Indian or Alaska Native	100	83.3
1	Filipino	100	92.9
1	Foster Youth	100	80
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	99.6	92.8
5	Black or African American	97.7	91.7
6	Hispanic or Latino	97.1	92.5
7	Asian	92	100
8	White	89	94.1
9	Students with Disabilities	78.3	21.3
10	Two or More Races	75	94.1
11	English Learners	66.7	100
12	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0	100