Redding Today

The American Indigenous and Alaskan Inuit student group in the Shasta Union High School District had a lower graduation rate, 85.4 percent, than the overall district's rate of 90.5 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	84.8	94.9
2	Filipino	92.9	93.5
3	White	92.1	92.1
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	91.4	88.6
4	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	100	88.6
6	Hispanic or Latino	87.9	86.5
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	85.4	82.8
8	Black or African American	87	82.2
9	Foster Youth	66.7	74.1
10	Students with Disabilities	70.9	67.1
11	English Learners	40	56.7