Spotlight on California High School Performance

June 2005
More is being demanded from high schools today, and the educational needs of today's youth are growing. Yet in many ways the typical high school looks much as it did 50 years ago. Pressure for high school reform is growing both nationally and in California. Advocates for change suggest that high schools focus on a new set of three R's -- rigor, relevance, and relationships.

Policymakers are beginning to listen as they grapple with the need for a well-trained workforce, the cost of high remediation rates for students entering college, and a national dropout rate that hovers around 30%.

Loaded with tables and graphs, this report looks not only at how well California high school students are performing, but also at what opportunities the state's students have to take more rigorous coursework. It delves into the graduation/dropout rates and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic, language, and ethnicity factors. Finally, it considers issues that may be obstacles to student success at some high schools, such as their curricula, teacher preparation, student-to-staff ratios, structure, and funding levels.

Page 4 of the report mentions a Civil Rights Project study that points to 15 high schools, mostly from smaller districts, that were beating the odds by graduating a higher than expected percentage of their students. View that list of 15 high schools here.

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