Fresno Leader

The graduation rate of African American students at Carter G. Woodson Public Charter in the 2017-2018 school year increased over the previous school year’s graduation rate of 20 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	Foster Youth	100	40
1	Two or More Races	100	0
3	American Indian or Alaska Native	66.7	0
4	White	58.3	85.7
5	Black or African American	57.1	20
6	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	47.6	38.1
7	Hispanic or Latino	45.5	39.8
8	Asian	42.9	0
9	English Learners	31.3	32
10	Students with Disabilities	18.2	75
11	Filipino	0	0
11	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0	100