West LA Times

The African American student group in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District had a lower graduation rate, 90.1 percent, than the overall district's rate of 91.6 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	87.5	94.9
2	Filipino	90	93.5
3	White	92.7	92.1
4	Socioeconomically Disadvantaged	96.9	88.6
4	Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	100	88.6
6	Hispanic or Latino	90.3	86.5
7	American Indian or Alaska Native	100	82.8
8	Black or African American	90.1	82.2
9	Students with Disabilities	87	67.1
10	English Learners	64.6	56.7