Sentences with phrase «graduation rate for black students»

The study lists the top and bottom performing institutions in terms of graduation rates for black students, and offers comparisons between colleges serving similar student populations.

Madison's high school graduation rate for black students has improved about 3 percentage points over the last four years to 59 percent.

Colleges that say they can't improve graduation rates for their black students because they enroll too many poor students or too many who are academically unprepared are sometimes just making excuses, a new report says.

Although a fictitious institution, the art of Hillman College imitates life because despite HBCUs being affected by unequal government funding to support its students who are predominantly from low - income families, during a recent study, The Education Trust concluded that the graduation rates for Black students at HBCUs are 37.8 percent, while black students attending four - year for - profit institutions have a completion rate of dismal 18.8 percent in comparison.

The 2015 graduation rate for white students in the Madison Metropolitan School District was about 90 percent, while the graduation rate for black students was 59 percent.

The graduation rate for black students was 56 percent in 2014, up from 54 percent in 2013.

Overall, the graduation rate for black students at HBCUs is 32 percent versus 45 percent at the other 676 public and nonprofit four - year institutions in the study's sample.

That same year, the graduation rate for black students was 66 percent compared to 83 percent for white students.