Los Angeles Unified
English Learner Graduation Rate Jumps 8.8 Points — But 1 in 5 Still Don't Graduate
California's English learner graduation rate reached 79.7% in 2025, up from 70.9% in 2018 -- an improvement of 8.8 percentage points that ranks as the third-largest gain of any subgroup behind Black s...
LAUSD's 126,000 Missing Students
Los Angeles Unified School District operates 1,386 schools across 710 square miles of Los Angeles County. It is the second-largest school district in the nation, with 528,612 students. In 2024-25, 126...
The White-Hispanic Graduation Gap Nearly Vanishes: Just 2.1 Points in 2025
In 2018, white students in California graduated at 87.7% and Hispanic students at 81.2%, a gap of 6.5 percentage points. By 2025, the gap had shrunk to 2.1 points: 89.0% for white students, 86.9% for ...
Oakland Unified's Graduation Rate Falls to 75.1%, Lowest Among California's Large Urban Districts
Oakland Unified's graduation rate fell 5.5 percentage points in a single year, from 80.6% in 2024 to 75.1% in 2025. No other large California district came close to that kind of decline. The next-larg...
Foster Youth Graduation Gap Is California's Widest at 19 Points
California tracks graduation rates for fifteen student subgroups. In 2025, one gap is wider than any other: students in foster care graduate at 68.5%, a full 19.3 percentage points below the state ave...
California's White-Black Graduation Gap Cut by More Than Half in Seven Years
In 2018, a Black student in California was 15.6 percentage points less likely to graduate than a white peer. By 2025, that gap had been cut to 6.4 points.