The African American student group in the Riverside County Office of Education School District had a lower graduation rate, 36.9 percent, than the overall district’s rate of 44.5 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 | 31.3 | 94.9 |
| 2 | Filipino | 50 | 93.5 |
| 3 | White | 59.3 | 92.1 |
| 4 | Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 39.7 | 88.6 |
| 4 | Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 50 | 88.6 |
| 6 | Hispanic or Latino | 40.7 | 86.5 |
| 7 | American Indian or Alaska Native | 44.4 | 82.8 |
| 8 | Black or African American | 36.9 | 82.2 |
| 9 | Foster Youth | 39.3 | 74.1 |
| 10 | Students with Disabilities | 35.8 | 67.1 |
| 11 | English Learners | 30.1 | 56.7 |
