Santa Clara Today

The graduation rate of socioeconomically disadvantaged students at Calaveras Hills in the 2017-2018 school year increased over the previous school year’s graduation rate of 88.4 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	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	100	66.7
1	White	100	75
3	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	90.5	88.4
4	Asian	80	100
4	Black or African American	80	50
6	Hispanic or Latino	73.9	79.4
7	Filipino	70	88.2
8	English Learners	56.3	41.7
8	Students with Disabilities	56.3	100
10	American Indian or Alaska Native	50	0
10	Two or More Races	50	100
12	Foster Youth	0	0