South Bay Leader

The Students with Disabilities student group in the Torrance Unified School District had a higher graduation rate, 100 percent, than the overall district's rate of 98.4 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	100	94.9
2	Filipino	100	93.5
3	White	96.3	92.1
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	100	88.6
4	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	90	88.6
6	Hispanic or Latino	97.2	86.5
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	100	82.8
8	Black or African American	96	82.2
9	Foster Youth	68.8	74.1
10	Students with Disabilities	100	67.1
11	English Learners	90.2	56.7