Sentences with phrase «school graduation rate for black students»

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

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Since mayoral control of the schools was authorized in 2002, ushering in an era of reform, graduation rates have spiked 40 percent overall, with a higher rate of growth for black and Hispanic students.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

The four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate reported by the state for the 2014 - 15 school year was 79 percent for Black students, but 90 percent for White students.

The four - year adjusted cohort graduation rate reported by Pennsylvania for the 2014 - 15 school year was 72 percent for Black students and 89 percent for White students.

And, for a half century, nearly one - third of the nation's high - school students have failed to graduate with their class each year, while graduation rates for black and Hispanic students are even lower.

The graduation rate for male Black students in the Rochester City Schools for 2015 was 44 percent, of whom just 3 percent had Regents diplomas, as compared to the 8 percent statewide average for the group.

For instance, the high school graduation rate is at a record high, and the test scores of Black and Hispanic students have outpaced those of white students on long - term measures of reading and math achievement.

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.

In places like Cambridge, Massachusetts, which uses choice to achieve economic diversity in its schools, graduation rates for low - income, Black and Hispanic students are as much as 20 percentage points higher than for comparable groups in nearby Boston.

The state graduation rate for white students in the 2013 - 14 school year was 92.9 percent, compared to 66 percent for black students.

North Carolina Central University has a graduation rate of 48 percent for black students, compared with 26 percent at Alabama State University even though the schools enroll similar students in terms of SAT scores and financial need.

For students who attended Connecticut public high schools and began college, the graduation rate is: 24.4 % for black, 21.4 % for Hispanic and 53.8 % for white college studenFor students who attended Connecticut public high schools and began college, the graduation rate is: 24.4 % for black, 21.4 % for Hispanic and 53.8 % for white college studenfor black, 21.4 % for Hispanic and 53.8 % for white college studenfor Hispanic and 53.8 % for white college studenfor white college students.

White students are concentrated in three high - quality college prep high schools, whereas the high school graduation rate is only 25 percent for young African American men in Buffalo's majority - black district.