Santa Cruz Standard

Aptos High School had a higher graduation rate than Pajaro Valley Unified District's overall graduation rate at 91.2 percent, according to the California Department of Education.

In comparison, Pajaro Valley Unified District had a graduation rate of 88.8 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
…
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
984	Polytechnic High School	91.31	88.79
984	Thomas Downey High School	91.31	88.87
986	Los Angeles International Charter High School	91.23	69.06
987	Point Loma High School	91.22	81.86
988	Balboa High School	91.21	83.67
988	Eastside High School	91.21	80.58
990	Paloma Valley High School	91.2	92.79
991	Placer High School	91.19	94.56
991	Saddleback High School	91.19	92.73
993	Academy of Careers and Exploration	91.18	96.49
993	Aptos High School	91.18	88.81
995	Rosemead High School	91.16	86.01
995	Washington High School	91.16	91.04
997	Ontario High School	91.15	89.17
998	Century High School	91.14	92.73
999	Lucerne Valley High School	91.11	93.42
1000	Robert Fulton College Preparatory	91.01	88.53
1000	West High School	91.01	90.47
1002	Herbert Hoover High School	90.99	86.82
1002	Savanna High School	90.99	87.71
1004	Agoura High School	90.93	89.19
1004	Bolsa Grande High School	90.93	88.16
1004	Wilson High School	90.93	88.79
1007	Cache Creek High School (Continuation)	90.91	93.3
1007	Casa Roble Fundamental High School	90.91	87.3
1007	Weed High School	90.91	89.4
1010	Canoga Park Senior High School	90.87	88.53
1011	Carpinteria Senior High School	90.85	89.13
1012	Parlier High School	90.78	91.34
1013	Bakersfield High School	90.77	90.47
1014	Shadow Ridge	90.74	93.11
1015	San Pasqual High School	90.71	86.92
1016	Ann Sobrato High School	90.7	89.8
1016	Everest Public High School	90.7	88.51
1018	South Gate Senior High School	90.69	88.53
1019	Sheldon High School	90.65	91.76
…
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