Santa Cruz Standard

Watsonville High School had a higher graduation rate than California's statewide graduation rate at 90.2 percent, in comparison to California’s graduation rate of 88.7 percent for the 2017-2018 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

According to CDE data, graduation rates continue to indicate an increase in disproportional academic performance between White, Black, Latino, and English learner students.

According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 50 states where data was collected, students with disabilities were at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates by student group.

Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELs and 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	School	School Graduation Rate	State Graduation Rate
1	Abraham Lincoln Alternative	100.0	88.72
1	Academy of the Redwoods	100.0	88.72
1	Acalanes Center for Independent Study	100.0	88.72
1	ACCESS County Community	100.0	88.72
1	Adelante High School	100.0	88.72
1	Aggeler Community Day	100.0	88.72
1	Alameda Science and Technology Institute	100.0	88.72
1	Alps View High School (Continuation)	100.0	88.72
1	Antelope Valley Learning Academy	100.0	88.72
1	Arbuckle Alternative High School (Continuation)	100.0	88.72
1	Arena High School (Continuation)	100.0	88.72
1	Aurora High School (Continuation)	100.0	88.72
1	Avalon High School	100.0	88.72
1	Baker High School	100.0	88.72
1	Bell Senior High School	100.0	88.72
1	Benjamin Franklin Senior High School	100.0	88.72
1	Briones (Alternative)	100.0	88.72
1	Buena Vista High School	100.0	88.72
1	Burroughs High School	100.0	88.72
1	Butte Valley High School	100.0	88.72
1	Butte View High School	100.0	88.72
1	Cal Burke High School	100.0	88.72
1	Calaveras River Academy	100.0	88.72
1	Calico Continuation High School	100.0	88.72
1	California Academy of Mathematics and Science	100.0	88.72
…
1023	Helen Bernstein High School	90.6	88.72
1024	Santa Ana High School	90.59	88.72
1025	Concord High School	90.58	88.72
1026	Central High School East Campus	90.56	88.72
1027	High Schoolland High	90.55	88.72
1027	Vista del Lago High School	90.55	88.72
1029	Red Bluff High School	90.51	88.72
1030	Eureka Senior High School	90.48	88.72
1030	WESM Health/Sports Medicine	90.48	88.72
1032	El Camino Fundamental High School	90.46	88.72
1033	Roseville High School	90.44	88.72
1034	Animo Inglewood Charter High School	90.41	88.72
1034	Vista High School	90.41	88.72
1034	Woodside High School	90.41	88.72
1037	ARISE High School	90.38	88.72
1037	Upper Lake High School	90.38	88.72
1039	Center High School	90.37	88.72
1040	Cabrillo High School	90.32	88.72
1040	New Designs Charter School-Watts	90.32	88.72
1040	Westminster High School	90.32	88.72
1043	Centennial High School	90.29	88.72
1044	North Monterey County High School	90.28	88.72
1044	Ronald Reagan Academy	90.28	88.72
1046	Ceres High School	90.27	88.72
1047	McKinleyville High School	90.23	88.72
1048	Watsonville High School	90.19	88.72
1049	Ernest Righetti High School	90.18	88.72
1050	Calabasas High School	90.17	88.72
1051	Mira Loma High School	90.16	88.72
1051	Pacific High School	90.16	88.72
1051	William J. (Pete) Knight High School	90.16	88.72
1054	Kearny SCT	90.14	88.72
1055	Cordova High School	90.13	88.72
1056	Madison High School	90.11	88.72
1057	Jefferson High School	90.08	88.72
1057	Taft Union High School	90.08	88.72
1059	Bret Harte Union High School	90.07	88.72
1059	East Valley Senior High School	90.07	88.72
1061	Bonita Vista Senior High School	90.03	88.72
1062	Corning High School	90.0	88.72
1062	Don Pedro High School	90.0	88.72
1062	John Vierra High School	90.0	88.72
1062	Maricopa High School	90.0	88.72
1062	Oakview High School (Alternative)	90.0	88.72
1062	Patterson High School	90.0	88.72
1062	Sierra High School	90.0	88.72
1062	Stoney Point Continuation	90.0	88.72
1070	Valencia High School	89.99	88.72
1071	Central Valley High School	89.97	88.72
1072	Napa High School	89.95	88.72
1072	North Park Continuation High School	89.95	88.72
…
1754	R. Rex Parris High School	22.62	88.72
1755	Maine Prairie High School (Continuation)	22.45	88.72
1756	New Horizon High School	22.22	88.72
1757	Apollo High School	21.18	88.72
1758	Berkeley Technology Academy	20.45	88.72
1759	Alessandro	20.0	88.72
1759	Blue Ridge	20.0	88.72
1759	Gateway High School (Continuation)	20.0	88.72
1759	Indian Hills Continuation High School	20.0	88.72
1763	Riley/New Dawn	19.35	88.72
1764	Bill M. Manes High School	16.67	88.72
1764	Burbank USD Community Day	16.67	88.72
1764	Dan Jacobs	16.67	88.72
1764	H. Glenn Richardson	16.67	88.72
1768	Banning Independent Study	16.28	88.72
1769	River Bend	14.29	88.72
1770	Gould Educational Center	14.1	88.72
1771	Clovis Community Day Secondary	12.5	88.72
1771	Mountain View High School	12.5	88.72
1773	Laurel Tree Charter	10.0	88.72
1774	Home & Hosp/Transition Support	7.69	88.72
1775	Riverside County Special Education	7.04	88.72
1776	East Hills Academy	6.25	88.72
1777	Central Juvenile Hall	4.88	88.72
1778	Berenece Carlson Home Hospital	4.76	88.72