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Delta Charter had a higher graduation rate than Santa Cruz City High District's overall graduation rate at 91.8 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

In comparison, Santa Cruz City High District had a graduation rate of 91.2 percent for the 2017-2018 school year. 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	District Graduation Rate
1	Abraham Lincoln Alternative	100.0	91.67
1	Academy of the Redwoods	100.0	91.32
1	Acalanes Center for Independent Study	100.0	99.01
1	ACCESS County Community	100.0	99.52
1	Adelante High School	100.0	95.97
1	Adelante High School	100.0	98.8
1	Aggeler Community Day	100.0	88.53
1	Alameda Science and Technology Institute	100.0	90.11
1	Alps View High School (Continuation)	100.0	97.53
1	Antelope Valley Learning Academy	100.0	100.0
1	Arbuckle Alternative High School (Continuation)	100.0	91.89
1	Arena High School (Continuation)	100.0	100.0
1	Aurora High School (Continuation)	100.0	97.98
1	Avalon High School	100.0	88.53
1	Baker High School	100.0	100.0
1	Bell Senior High School	100.0	88.53
1	Benjamin Franklin Senior High School	100.0	88.53
1	Briones (Alternative)	100.0	97.12
1	Buena Vista High School	100.0	94.44
1	Burroughs High School	100.0	93.87
1	Butte Valley High School	100.0	100.0
1	Butte View High School	100.0	99.48
1	Cal Burke High School	100.0	88.53
1	Calaveras River Academy	100.0	100.0
1	Calico Continuation High School	100.0	100.0
…
932	Valley High School	92.24	91.76
934	Novato High School	92.23	95.5
935	Otay Ranch Senior High School	92.22	82.0
935	Wallis Annenberg High School	92.22	88.53
937	Monterey Trail High School	92.2	91.76
938	Eagle Rock High School	92.14	88.53
938	Tracy High School	92.14	90.82
940	MIT Academy	92.13	78.85
940	University Preparatory Academy Charter	92.13	56.53
940	Woodland Senior High School	92.13	93.3
943	Cloverdale High School	92.11	89.17
943	John J. Cairns Continuation	92.11	92.78
945	Foothill High School	92.1	90.46
946	Galt High School	92.08	91.65
947	Bear River High School	92.05	87.0
948	East Bakersfield High School	92.04	90.47
949	Ralph J. Bunche High School	92.0	85.06
950	Calaveras High School	91.98	100.0
951	Bassett Senior High School	91.95	90.72
951	Pacific Coast Charter	91.95	88.81
953	Lindsay Senior High School	91.93	92.78
954	Ramona High School	91.9	89.04
955	Foothill High School	91.84	69.13
956	Moreno Valley High School	91.83	86.63
957	Golden Valley High School	91.82	95.92
958	Delta Charter	91.8	91.17
959	John Marshall Senior High School	91.79	88.53
959	Sierra High School	91.79	93.47
961	San Benito High School	91.75	89.79
962	Willows High School	91.74	94.92
963	Riverside Preparatory	91.73	80.83
964	Lynwood High School	91.72	88.6
965	John F. Kennedy High School	91.71	91.04
966	Costa Mesa High School	91.7	92.06
967	Dickens (Billy Joe) High School (Continuation)	91.67	95.88
968	San Fernando Senior High School	91.62	88.53
969	Cabrillo High School	91.59	94.39
969	Las Plumas High School	91.59	89.59
971	Woodcreek High School	91.56	90.05
972	Silver Creek High School	91.54	84.07
973	South Tahoe High School	91.53	93.58
974	University City High School	91.51	81.86
975	Tulare Union High School	91.49	93.08
976	Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences	91.47	88.53
977	Hamilton High School	91.46	80.9
978	Westmoor High School	91.45	91.31
979	Emery Secondary	91.43	91.43
979	Pierce High School	91.43	91.89
981	Canyon Springs High School	91.37	86.63
981	Riverdale High School	91.37	90.14
981	Santiago High School	91.37	88.16
…
1754	R. Rex Parris High School	22.62	80.58
1755	Maine Prairie High School (Continuation)	22.45	85.85
1756	New Horizon High School	22.22	67.88
1757	Apollo High School	21.18	84.07
1758	Berkeley Technology Academy	20.45	85.86
1759	Alessandro	20.0	86.63
1759	Blue Ridge	20.0	76.72
1759	Gateway High School (Continuation)	20.0	87.26
1759	Indian Hills Continuation High School	20.0	89.19
1763	Riley/New Dawn	19.35	81.86
1764	Bill M. Manes High School	16.67	85.37
1764	Burbank USD Community Day	16.67	93.87
1764	Dan Jacobs	16.67	57.14
1764	H. Glenn Richardson	16.67	80.61
1768	Banning Independent Study	16.28	67.88
1769	River Bend	14.29	91.44
1770	Gould Educational Center	14.1	50.45
1771	Clovis Community Day Secondary	12.5	90.82
1771	Mountain View High School	12.5	93.42
1773	Laurel Tree Charter	10.0	91.12
1774	Home & Hosp/Transition Support	7.69	81.86
1775	Riverside County Special Education	7.04	44.47
1776	East Hills Academy	6.25	82.0
1777	Central Juvenile Hall	4.88	69.06
1778	Berenece Carlson Home Hospital	4.76	88.53