West OC Times

The graduation rate of American Indian and Alaska Native students at Fountain Valley High School in the 2017-2018 school year increased over the previous school year’s graduation rate of 93.8 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	Black or African American	100	93.3
1	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	100	83.3
1	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	100	97.4
1	Two or More Races	100	100
5	Asian	98.8	100
6	White	96.1	93
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	95	93.8
8	Hispanic or Latino	94.3	97.3
9	Filipino	85.7	90
10	Students with Disabilities	72.9	67.2
11	English Learners	50	54.6
11	Foster Youth	50	75