Tulare Times

Students classified as students with disabilities rank seventh for completion of graduation requirements among students in Tulare Joint Union High School District for the 2017-2018 school year with the completion of graduation requirements at 91.2 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

According to CDE data, graduation rates indicate an increasing achievement gap between Latino, Black, and English learner students. The achievement gap refers to the disparities in academic performance associated with race and class.

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.

In The Effects of English Learner Classification on High School Graduation and College Attendance, Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says, “prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current English learners and non-English learners and that these inequities explain achievement gaps in middle and early high school.”

Rank	Student Group	Student Group Graduation Rate
1	Asian	100.0
2	White	94.2
3	Hispanic or Latino	92.9
4	Economically Disadvantaged	92.7
5	Black/African American	91.8
6	American Indian	91.7
7	Students with Disabilities	91.2
8	Foster Youth	90.0
9	Filipino	75.0
10	Native Hawaiian	66.7
11	English Learners	50.3