Kern County Times

Independence High School had a lower graduation rate than California's statewide graduation rate at 53 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
…
1604	Fairvalley High School (Continuation)	56.12	88.72
1605	Buena Vista High School (Continuation)	56.0	88.72
1606	Dunlap Leadership Academy	55.88	88.72
1606	Foothills High School	55.88	88.72
1608	Orangewood High School (Continuation)	55.63	88.72
1609	Abraxas Continuation High School	55.56	88.72
1609	Alternative Learning Academy at Conley-Caraballo High School	55.56	88.72
1611	Pacific High School	55.32	88.72
1612	Slover Mountain High School (Continuation)	55.15	88.72
1613	ABC Secondary (Alternative)	55.1	88.72
1614	La Vista High School (Continuation)	55.08	88.72
1615	Independence High School (Alternative)	54.95	88.72
1616	Robertson High School (Continuation)	54.63	88.72
1617	Ipakanni Early College Charter	54.55	88.72
1619	Daily (Allan F.) High School (Continuation)	54.43	88.72
1620	Major General Raymond Murray High School	54.36	88.72
1621	Street Academy (Alternative)	54.17	88.72
1622	Charter School of San Diego	54.16	88.72
1623	Kern Workforce 2000 Academy	54.0	88.72
1624	American Legion High School (Continuation)	53.85	88.72
1624	Rare Earth High School (Continuation)	53.85	88.72
1626	Provisional Accelerated Learning Academy	53.62	88.72
1627	Feather River Academy	53.49	88.72
1628	Olympic Continuation High School	53.4	88.72
1629	Coast High School	53.33	88.72
1630	Independence High School	53.01	88.72
1631	Stockton High School	52.63	88.72
1632	Tulare Technical Preparatory High School	52.38	88.72
1633	MAAC Community Charter	52.1	88.72
1634	Monterey Continuation	51.85	88.72
1635	Community Collaborative Charter	51.58	88.72
1636	Jane Addams Continuation	51.28	88.72
1637	Gilbert High School (Continuation)	51.17	88.72
1638	Phoenix High School	51.16	88.72
1639	Mirus Secondary	50.94	88.72
1640	El Camino High School (Continuation)	50.79	88.72
1641	Will Rogers Continuation	50.72	88.72
1642	El Cajon Valley High School	50.64	88.72
1643	Valley High School (Continuation)	50.52	88.72
1644	Alpine County Opportunity	50.0	88.72
1644	Alta Vista High School	50.0	88.72
1644	Bridges Community Day	50.0	88.72
1644	Eagle Tree Continuation	50.0	88.72
1644	Esperanza High School (Continuation)	50.0	88.72
1644	Gene Drevno Community Day	50.0	88.72
1644	Green Valley Independent Study	50.0	88.72
1644	Kelseyville Community Day	50.0	88.72
1644	Kings Canyon Continuation	50.0	88.72
1644	Mendocino County Community	50.0	88.72
1644	Mokelumne High School (Continuation)	50.0	88.72
1644	Moneta Continuation	50.0	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