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High School Dropout Rate (Alameda County, 2011)

Statistics for this chart:
• 26.4% of African American high school students in Alameda County drop out before graduating.


• 5.9% of Asian high school students in Alameda County drop out before graduating.


• 8.6% of Filipino high school students in Alameda County drop out before graduating.


• 21.1% of Latino high school students in Alameda County drop out before graduating.


• 27.3% of Native American/Alaska Native high school students in Alameda County drop out before graduating.


• 17.7% of Pacific Islander high school students in Alameda County drop out before graduating.


• African American high school students in Alameda County (26.4%) are more than three times as likely to drop out before graduating as White high school students (7.5%).


• Native American/Alaska Native high school students in Alameda County (27.3%) are more than three times as likely to drop out before graduating as White high school students (7.5%).


• Latino high school students in Alameda County (21.1%) are more than twice as likely to drop out before graduating as White high school students (7.5%).


• Pacific Islander high school students in Alameda County (17.7%) are more than twice as likely to drop out before graduating as White high school students (7.5%).

Definition: Estimated percentage of public high school students who drop out of high school, based on the adjusted four-year derived dropout rate, by race/ethnicity. This adjusted dropout rate estimates the percentage of high school students who would drop out in a four-year period based on data collected for a single year.

Source: California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) (Drop outs). , California Department of Education. As cited on www.kidsdata.org, a program of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.