Wine Country Times

The English Learners student group in the Mendocino County Office of Education School District had a lower graduation rate, 25 percent, than the overall district's rate of 80 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	White	71.4	92.1
2	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	84.6	88.6
3	Hispanic or Latino	83.3	86.5
4	American Indian or Alaska Native	100	82.8
5	Black or African American	100	82.2
6	Foster Youth	100	74.1
7	Students with Disabilities	50	67.1
8	English Learners	25	56.7