South Bay Leader

Inglewood Unified ranked 377th among California schools in the 2018-19 school year with a drop-out rate of 10 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

CDE data shows that graduation and dropout rates continue to confirm that 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 drop-out rates. Individually tailored student support is one way that has been 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	Aromas - San Juan Unified	0.0
1	Big Pine Unified	0.0
1	Big Valley Joint Unified	0.0
1	Biggs Unified	0.0
1	Buckeye Union Elementary	0.0
1	Durham Unified	0.0
1	Ferndale Unified	0.0
1	Geyserville Unified	0.0
1	Hawthorne	0.0
1	La Honda-Pescadero Unified	0.0
1	Loomis Union Elementary	0.0
1	Maxwell Unified	0.0
1	Menifee Union Elementary	0.0
1	Mountain Valley Unified	0.0
1	Muroc Joint Unified	0.0
1	Nuestro Elementary	0.0
1	Princeton Joint Unified	0.0
1	SBE - New West Charter	0.0
1	SBE - The School of Arts and Enterprise	0.0
1	Sierra Unified	0.0
1	Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified	0.0
1	Tulelake Basin Joint Unified	0.0
23	Manhattan Beach Unified	0.2
24	Arcadia Unified	0.3
24	Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified	0.3
…
353	Snowline Joint Unified	8.9
354	Chowchilla Union High	9.0
354	Morgan Hill Unified	9.0
356	Antioch Unified	9.1
356	Elverta Joint Elementary	9.1
356	Fresno Unified	9.1
359	Coachella Valley Unified	9.2
359	Roseville Joint Union High	9.2
361	Lakeside Union Elementary	9.3
361	Tehachapi Unified	9.3
361	West Covina Unified	9.3
364	Needles Unified	9.4
364	Pomona Unified	9.4
366	Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified	9.5
366	Gridley Unified	9.5
366	Napa Valley Unified	9.5
366	Rim of the World Unified	9.5
370	John Swett Unified	9.6
371	South Bay Union Elementary	9.7
371	Stockton Unified	9.7
373	Burton Elementary	9.8
373	Long Beach Unified	9.8
373	Palo Verde Unified	9.8
373	Paradise Unified	9.8
377	Contra Costa County Office of Education	9.9
377	Inglewood Unified	9.9
379	Eastern Sierra Unified	10.0
379	Gorman Joint	10.0
379	Santa Cruz City High	10.0
382	Konocti Unified	10.2
383	Compton Unified	10.3
383	Santa Rosa High	10.3
385	Laton Joint Unified	10.5
386	Banning Unified	10.7
386	Byron Union Elementary	10.7
388	Lynwood Unified	10.8
389	Antelope Valley Union High	10.9
389	Colusa Unified	10.9
389	San Bernardino City Unified	10.9
392	Berkeley Unified	11.0
393	Harmony Union Elementary	11.1
393	Keppel Union Elementary	11.1
393	Upper Lake Unified	11.1
396	San Francisco Unified	11.2
397	Los Angeles Unified	11.3
397	Marysville Joint Unified	11.3
399	Hayward Unified	11.4
399	Point Arena Joint Union High	11.4
401	Denair Unified	11.5
402	Oceanside Unified	11.7
402	San Juan Unified	11.7
…
507	Adelanto Elementary	43.9
508	Merced County Office of Education	44.6
509	Shasta County Office of Education	45.1
510	Riverside County Office of Education	45.9
511	Yuba County Office of Education	47.2
512	Meridian Elementary	48.3
513	Santa Clara County Office of Education	49.3
513	Santa Cruz County Office of Education	49.3
515	San Diego County Office of Education	50.7
516	Glenn County Office of Education	52.1
517	San Francisco County Office of Education	52.6
518	Imperial County Office of Education	54.2
519	Santa Barbara County Office of Education	54.5
520	Twin Hills Union Elementary	55.2
521	San Bernardino County Office of Education	57.7
522	Guerneville Elementary	60.7
523	Nevada County Office of Education	61.9
524	Lake County Office of Education	63.6
525	Yolo County Office of Education	65.5
526	Sonoma County Office of Education	68.4
527	Trona Joint Unified	68.8
528	Solano County Office of Education	71.0
529	Cuyama Joint Unified	79.0
530	Bradley Union Elementary	82.1
531	Hart-Ransom Union Elementary	89.5