Monterey Times

The American Indigenous and Alaskan Inuit student group in the North Monterey County Unified School District had a higher graduation rate, 100 percent, than the overall district's rate of 81.1 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	75	94.9
2	Filipino	66.7	93.5
3	White	74.2	92.1
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	82.1	88.6
4	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	100	88.6
6	Hispanic or Latino	82.6	86.5
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	100	82.8
8	Black or African American	75	82.2
9	Foster Youth	33.3	74.1
10	Students with Disabilities	43.2	67.1
11	English Learners	28.9	56.7