San Francisco Sun

The graduation rate of foster youth students at Galileo High School in the 2017-2018 school year decreased from the previous school year’s graduation rate of 100 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	Two or More Races	100	100
2	Asian	89.8	93
3	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	86.6	92.7
4	Hispanic or Latino	72.7	84
5	Filipino	68.2	83.3
6	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	66.7	100
6	White	66.7	85.7
8	Students with Disabilities	56	58.3
9	English Learners	55.3	57
10	Black or African American	52	72.7
11	Foster Youth	33.3	100
12	American Indian or Alaska Native	0	100