Wine Country Times

Willits Unified School District ranked 424th among California schools in the 2019-20 school year with a dropout rate of 17 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

CDE data of graduation and dropout rates confirms there is a growing 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 data provided by the National Centre for Education Statistics in 2018, of the 48 states where data was collected, Black males remain at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates.

Closing the achievement gap earlier in the schooling process, such as during elementary school, can improve high school graduation rates and decrease dropout rates. Individually tailored student support is one way that is proposed to accomplish this.

In The Long-Term Impact of Systemic Student Support in Elementary School: Reducing High School Dropout, Terrence J. Lee-St. John, a Biostatistician at the Research Department of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, says, “Students often fail to complete high school for complex reasons that often manifest long before they reach high school. Individually tailored student support during elementary school can lead to lasting and meaningful effects.”

Rank	District	Drop-Out rate
1	Amador County Office of Education	0
1	Buckeye Union Elementary	0
1	Calistoga Joint Unified	0
1	Durham Unified	0
1	El Segundo Unified	0
1	El Tejon Unified	0
1	Emery Unified	0
1	Ferndale Unified	0
1	Hawthorne	0
1	La Canada Unified	0
1	Laguna Beach Unified	0
1	Menifee Union Elementary	0
1	Mountain Valley Unified	0
1	Nuestro Elementary	0
1	Nuview Union	0
1	Oak Park Unified	0
1	Piedmont City Unified	0
1	Princeton Joint Unified	0
1	Redding Elementary	0
1	Scott Valley Unified	0
1	Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified	0
1	Templeton Unified	0
1	Twin Hills Union Elementary	0
1	Williams Unified	0
25	Manhattan Beach Unified	0.2
…
401	Dixon Unified	13.1
401	Harmony Union Elementary	13.1
403	Paradise Unified	13.2
403	Plumas Unified	13.2
405	Calexico Unified	13.7
406	Compton Unified	13.8
407	Winters Joint Unified	13.9
408	Oro Grande	14
409	Baker Valley Unified	14.3
409	SBE - Olive Grove Charter - Santa Barbara	14.3
411	Trinity Alps Unified	14.7
412	Coalinga-Huron Unified	14.9
413	Morongo Unified	15
413	SBE - Olive Grove Charter - Buellton	15
413	Washington Unified	15
413	Wheatland Union High	15
417	Palmdale Elementary	15.3
418	East Side Union High	15.6
419	Lakeside Union Elementary	15.8
420	Armona Union Elementary	16
421	Bishop Unified	16.1
422	Duarte Unified	16.5
422	Siskiyou County Office of Education	16.5
424	Butte Valley Unified	16.7
424	Mendocino Unified	16.7
424	Willits Unified	16.7
427	Mendota Unified	16.9
428	Hart-Ransom Union Elementary	18.2
429	Kit Carson Union Elementary	18.5
429	Konocti Unified	18.5
431	Dunsmuir Joint Union High	18.8
431	Piner-Olivet Union Elementary	18.8
431	Victor Valley Union High	18.8
434	Denair Unified	19.1
435	Sutter County Office of Education	19.6
436	Del Norte County Office of Education	19.8
437	New Jerusalem Elementary	20
437	San Gabriel Unified	20
437	SBE - Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria	20
440	Cloverdale Unified	20.2
441	Bonsall Unified	20.5
441	Sacramento County Office of Education	20.5
443	Westside Elementary	20.9
444	Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified	21.2
444	Santa Clara County Office of Education	21.2
446	Mountain Empire Unified	21.3
447	Ripon Unified	21.7
447	Robla Elementary	21.7
449	Twin Rivers Unified	21.9
450	El Dorado County Office of Education	22.1
451	San Mateo County Office of Education	22.2
…
503	Meridian Elementary	53.1
504	Mono County Office of Education	53.4
505	Solano County Office of Education	53.6
506	Yuba County Office of Education	53.8
507	Centinela Valley Union High	56.7
508	California School for the Deaf-Fremont (State Special Schl)	57.4
509	Mattole Unified	58.3
510	Inyo County Office of Education	58.6
511	Orange Center	60
512	Adelanto Elementary	61.5
513	Glenn County Office of Education	61.6
514	Madera County Superintendent of Schools	62.1
515	Vallecitos Elementary	64.3
516	San Francisco County Office of Education	65.2
517	Yolo County Office of Education	67.4
518	Imperial County Office of Education	67.7
519	Nevada County Office of Education	70.2
520	Oak Grove Union Elementary	72.2
521	Trona Joint Unified	79.7
522	Marin County Office of Education	83.6
523	Bradley Union Elementary	86.4
524	Guerneville Elementary	86.5
525	Cuyama Joint Unified	89.9
526	Laytonville Unified	93.8
526	Shasta County Office of Education	93.8