West OC Times

The Socioeconomically Disadvantaged student group in the Huntington Beach Union High School District had a higher graduation rate, 99.1 percent, than the overall district's rate of 87.6 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	91.9	94.9
2	Filipino	87.5	93.5
3	White	90.9	92.1
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	99.1	88.6
4	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	85.7	88.6
6	Hispanic or Latino	80.7	86.5
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	80.8	82.8
8	Black or African American	80.4	82.2
9	Foster Youth	40	74.1
10	Students with Disabilities	41.5	67.1
11	English Learners	42	56.7