High school is a critically important time, where students prepare themselves for college or technical occupations. Falling behind in high school puts students at risk for not graduating on-time or dropping out. Factors like race, foster care status, disability status, and immigration status can affect academic performance and on-time graduation rates, further exacerbating gaps between high and low performing students.

To understand High School Education as a function of inequality, we used four indicators:

• Race & Academic Performance
• Race & School Discipline
• Disability & On-time Graduation
• Income & On-time Graduation

Take a look at the chart to your right for an overall picture of this topic, and then look at each indicator and the scores in context for more detail and additional findings.