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The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
The education of African Americans and some other minorities lags behind those of other U.S. ethnic groups, such as White Americans and Asian Americans, as reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees.
The same differences decrease significantly at the high school level with 89.4% of non-Hispanic whites, 87.6% of Asian Americans, 80.0% of African Americans, and 57% of Hispanics or Latinos having graduated from high school. [3] In 2015, the average SAT scores on the math section were 598 for Asian-Americans, 534 for White Americans, 457 for ...
Steve Lin, 17, a Monterey Park resident and high school junior, is about to begin the college admissions process. The student musician, who posts under a nickname on TikTok and other social ...
In the 2022-2023 school year, there were 1,903 students enrolled at the school. 84% of students identified as Hispanic or Latino, 11% were Asian, 4% were black or African-American, and 2% were non-Hispanic white. The school has a student to teacher ratio of 15.2, and 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. [4]
And, although 82% of Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Californians who entered high school in 2017 graduated, less than half completed the college prep coursework required for UC and Cal State admission.
South Asian American students applying to Ivy League and other prestigious schools may face worse odds than their white peers, according to a recent study published in Nature.
The diocesan school remained open only until 1997 because the school's population had continued to drop. The school and property were then sold to the Chicago Public Schools system, which opened the current school in 1998 as Southside College Preparatory Academy. In 2001, the school was named in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks, who was a South Side ...