Sentences with phrase «white graduation rate gap»

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While its overall graduation rate increased 6 percentage points to 80 percent last year, it managed to close an achievement gap between white students and everyone else.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

Judging by the currently available statistical evidence, eliminating the test score gap would sharply increase black college - graduation rates, making them nearly equal to white rates.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

The program seeks to address the many disparities in outcomes for black men, including large gaps with white men regarding high - school graduation rates, college enrollment and completion rates, lifetime earnings, longevity, and the likelihood of incarceration.

Today, the graduation rate for African - Americans is 75 percent, still lower than our white counterparts, but an increase that shows our community rapidly closing that achievement gap.

Preliminary data released on Monday by the Department of Education show that high school graduation rates rose in a majority of states and gaps in graduation rates between white and minority students narrowed in most states.

High school graduation rates ticked up in a majority of states in 2014, and graduation gaps between white and minority students narrowed in most states that year, according to new federal data.

High school graduation rates are up in Wisconsin, and the gap in the rates between students of color and white students is closing, according to figures released Thursday.

Republicans also criticized Evers for the state's longstanding gap in academic achievement between black and white students, for his department's plan to comply with a new federal education accountability law and for a DPI software error that resulted in DPI unable to verify four - year graduation rates for 2016.

Its graduation rate rose from 64.3 percent in 2007 to 78.8 percent in 2012, according to data provided by the district, and it narrowed the achievement gaps between the district's Hispanic students and Texas» white students by more than 50 percent on state tests in high school math and science.

Furthermore, the K - 12 system itself is partially to blame; there are large racial gaps in high school graduation rates, which means that fewer people of color attend college relative to their white peers.

Among the 676 institutions analyzed, 22 percent had a black - white graduation gap of less than 5 percentage points, and at 8 percent of the colleges, black students graduated at the same rate (or higher) as white students.

However, comprehensives studies show Consortium Schools have higher graduation rates, better college attendance rates, and smaller gaps in outcomes between students of color and their white peers than the rest of New York's public schools.

According to the study's authors, this effect is equivalent in magnitude to cutting about 43 percent of the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color in New York City.

Although the increase is attributed to improved graduation rates for specific groups of students that have traditionally struggled to earn a diploma — including a 15 percentage point gain for Hispanic students and a 9 percentage point gain for black students over the past decade — gaps still remain when comparing these students to their white and Asian peers.

Opportunity Gap In nearly every educational metric, from cohort graduation rates to college and career readiness, the majority of students of color in North Carolina underperform their white counterparts.17 Fabrizio, «Gaps in Student Achievement in North Carolina on Selected Variables.»

Large achievement gaps persist in the city's schools: The four - year graduation rate in 2012 for African - American students was 53 percent, compared with 78 percent for both white and Asian students.

In Indiana, the black male graduation rate is 49 percent, which represents a 31 percent achievement gap when compared to white counterparts, Pruitt said.

That gap was more than twice as large as the racial disparity in national graduation rates, which saw 87.6 percent of white students graduate in four years compared to 74.6 percent of black students.

While graduation rates improved for all student subgroups, large gaps between white students and students statewide of color remain.

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.

However, despite generally good performance overall, Wisconsin also retains the unfortunate distinction of having the widest graduation rate between white and black students in the nation and the tenth highest gap between white and Latino students graduating in four years, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Among the reasons the achievement gap is so stark in Wisconsin is that its four - year (on - time) graduation rate for white students (92.9 percent) is very high, ranking third in the nation behind only New Jersey (94 percent) and Texas (93.4 percent).

The biggest gaps in graduation rates in the district exist between African - American and white students, with 59 percent of black students graduating in four years compared to 90 percent of their white peers.

Four - year (on - time) graduation rates for Wisconsin's Latino students (77.5 percent) were close to the national rate (77.8 percent), but still result in wide achievement gaps when compared with white students.