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The 24-Point Gap: Native American Students Graduate at 63% While White Peers Reach 88%

Between 2013 and 2018, something worked. The graduation rate for Native American students in North Dakota climbed from 64.3% to 72%, and the gap with white students narrowed from 26 percentage points ...

North Dakota's 24-Point Native American Graduation Gap

In 2018, the graduation gap between Native American and white students in North Dakota had narrowed to 19.4 percentage points, the smallest in at least six years. Native American students were graduat...

89% to 82%: North Dakota's Graduation Rate Collapse

North Dakota graduated 89.0% of its high school seniors in 2020. Four years later, that number is 82.4%. The state has not posted a single year of improvement since.