While California is among half-dozen states with the highest percentage of Latino loftier school students, Texas is the simply state among the 6 where 85 pct of Latino loftier school students graduate, a figure that is in a higher place the national graduation rate of 81.4 percentfor all students, according to a newly-released report on high school graduation rates.

The study, "Building a Grad Nation," by the School of Instruction at Johns Hopkins Academy with the Washington D.C.- based Alliance for Excellence in Educational activity, plant that more than African-American and Latino students are graduating.

The report analyzed information between 2022 and 2022 and establish that graduation rates amongst Latino high school students nationally rose iv.ii pct points and 3.vii percentage points among African-Americans.

Among the reasons the study cited for the gains in graduation rates amid Latinos and African-Americans was the closure of many schools across the state known every bit "dropout factories," or schools with exceedingly low graduation rates.

While African-American and Latino high school graduation rates have climbed, "unacceptably low levels" of lower-income students and students with disabilities or who are English language language learners are graduating from high school, according to the report.

The graduation charge per unit for low-income students, for case, is 15 pct points lower than it is for middle class and flush students, which is 88.2 pct, according to the report.

The graduation rate also varied sharply from land to land. Low-income students take a much better chance of graduating high school if they alive in, for instance, Kentucky than if they alive in Alaska, co-ordinate to the report. More than 85 percent of high school students from poorer backgrounds graduate high school in Kentucky, merely only 59 pct of low-income high school students earn a diploma in Alaska.

Although upwardly to xc percent of special educational activity students would be able to come across graduate requirements if they had admission to appropriate support, only about 62 percent of the nation'south students with disabilities graduate high school, according to the report.

To learn more, read the report here.

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