South Bay Leader

Palos Verdes High School had a lower graduation rate than Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified District's overall graduation rate at 98.9 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

In comparison, Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified District had a graduation rate of 100 percent for the 2017-2018 school year. According to CDE data, graduation rates continue to indicate an increase in disproportional academic performance between white, Black, Latino, and English learner students.

According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 50 states where data was collected, students with disabilities were at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates by student group.

Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELs and 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	School	School Graduation Rate	District Graduation Rate
1	Abraham Lincoln Alternative	100.0	91.67
1	Academy of the Redwoods	100.0	91.32
1	Acalanes Center for Independent Study	100.0	99.01
1	ACCESS County Community	100.0	99.52
1	Adelante High School	100.0	95.97
1	Adelante High School	100.0	98.8
1	Aggeler Community Day	100.0	88.53
1	Alameda Science and Technology Institute	100.0	90.11
1	Alps View High School (Continuation)	100.0	97.53
1	Antelope Valley Learning Academy	100.0	100.0
1	Arbuckle Alternative High School (Continuation)	100.0	91.89
1	Arena High School (Continuation)	100.0	100.0
1	Aurora High School (Continuation)	100.0	97.98
1	Avalon High School	100.0	88.53
1	Baker High School	100.0	100.0
1	Bell Senior High School	100.0	88.53
1	Benjamin Franklin Senior High School	100.0	88.53
1	Briones (Alternative)	100.0	97.12
1	Buena Vista High School	100.0	94.44
1	Burroughs High School	100.0	93.87
1	Butte Valley High School	100.0	100.0
1	Butte View High School	100.0	99.48
1	Cal Burke High School	100.0	88.53
1	Calaveras River Academy	100.0	100.0
1	Calico Continuation High School	100.0	100.0
…
365	Cesar E. Chavez High School	99.34	98.26
365	Henry M. Gunn High School	99.34	96.79
367	L.A. County High School for the Arts	99.31	69.06
367	Villa Park High School	99.31	93.9
369	Elizabeth Learning Center	99.3	88.53
370	Monta Vista High School	99.26	95.88
371	International Polytechnic High School	99.25	69.06
372	California High School	99.24	99.88
373	La Habra High School	99.23	92.56
374	Lakewood High School	99.22	88.79
375	Millennium Charter	99.21	90.82
376	Nuview Bridge Early College High School	99.17	96.27
377	Trabuco Hills High School	99.11	95.36
378	Santa Rosa Academy	99.09	99.09
378	Walnut High School	99.09	98.95
380	University High School	99.08	86.82
381	Ripon High School	99.07	84.66
382	Alliance Dr. Olga Mohan High School	99.05	88.53
382	Centennial High School	99.05	93.89
384	Los Banos High School	99.04	96.21
385	High School Tech High Media Arts	99.0	81.86
386	Mountain View High School	98.99	86.01
387	Village Academy High School at Indian Hill	98.94	83.79
388	Tranquillity High School	98.9	97.96
389	SOAR High School (Students On Academic Rise)	98.89	80.58
390	Palos Verdes High School	98.87	100.0
391	San Lorenzo Valley High School	98.86	95.97
391	Summit Public School: Rainier	98.86	84.07
393	Aspire Benjamin Holt College Preparatory Academy	98.85	82.09
394	Saratoga High School	98.83	98.9
396	La Mirada High School	98.81	89.18
396	Pathway Independent Study	98.81	88.6
398	Los Alamitos High School	98.8	98.2
398	San Ramon Valley High School	98.8	99.88
400	Covina High School	98.79	94.44
401	Soquel High School	98.77	91.17
402	Middle College High School	98.73	92.73
403	High School Tech High Chula Vista	98.71	98.51
404	Eleanor Roosevelt High School	98.69	93.89
405	Dozier-Libbey Medical High School	98.68	82.88
405	San Juan Hills High School	98.68	96.2
407	Fremont Academy of Engineering and Design	98.67	83.79
408	Coronado High School	98.62	98.62
409	Canyon High School	98.61	93.9
409	High School Tech High	98.61	81.86
411	Brea-Olinda High School	98.6	96.79
412	Mountain Oaks	98.57	100.0
413	Academia Avance Charter	98.55	98.55
413	Mammoth High School	98.55	100.0
413	Strathmore High School	98.55	89.22
416	Esparto High School	98.53	100.0
…
1754	R. Rex Parris High School	22.62	80.58
1755	Maine Prairie High School (Continuation)	22.45	85.85
1756	New Horizon High School	22.22	67.88
1757	Apollo High School	21.18	84.07
1758	Berkeley Technology Academy	20.45	85.86
1759	Alessandro	20.0	86.63
1759	Blue Ridge	20.0	76.72
1759	Gateway High School (Continuation)	20.0	87.26
1759	Indian Hills Continuation High School	20.0	89.19
1763	Riley/New Dawn	19.35	81.86
1764	Bill M. Manes High School	16.67	85.37
1764	Burbank USD Community Day	16.67	93.87
1764	Dan Jacobs	16.67	57.14
1764	H. Glenn Richardson	16.67	80.61
1768	Banning Independent Study	16.28	67.88
1769	River Bend	14.29	91.44
1770	Gould Educational Center	14.1	50.45
1771	Clovis Community Day Secondary	12.5	90.82
1771	Mountain View High School	12.5	93.42
1773	Laurel Tree Charter	10.0	91.12
1774	Home & Hosp/Transition Support	7.69	81.86
1775	Riverside County Special Education	7.04	44.47
1776	East Hills Academy	6.25	82.0
1777	Central Juvenile Hall	4.88	69.06
1778	Berenece Carlson Home Hospital	4.76	88.53