CPS high school graduation rates show large gaps by race/ethnicity and gender, with young men graduating at lower rates than young women within every race/ethnicity group¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · checked against its sources 2026-10-17 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2028: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Within each race/ethnicity group, young men graduated from high school at a rate lower than young women of the same race/ethnicity, and Black young men (75.6%) and Latino young men (81.6%) graduated below the district average of 84.0%. → Usher 2023

Evidence¶

Usher 2023¶

Usher, A., Mahaffie, S., & Nagaoka, J. (2023). The educational attainment of Chicago Public Schools students: 2022. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive disaggregation of the 2018–19 CPS ninth-grade cohort's four-year graduation rates by race/ethnicity and gender. Rates ranged from 75.6% for Black young men to 95.9% for Asian/Pacific Islander young women, against an all-students rate of 84.0%.

"Within each race/ethnicity group, young men graduated from high school at a rate lower than young women of the same race/ethnicity."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Gender — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause
• Race and Ethnicity — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Related Claims¶

• Attainment indices vary sharply by race/ethnicity and gender: Black young men face a projected PAI of 12.6 percent versus 62.0 percent for Asian/Pacific Islander young women — related
• Graduation rates by age 19 in Chicago varied substantially by race/ethnicity and gender, with African-American boys lowest (39 percent) and Asian girls highest (85 percent) — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• CPS four-year high school graduation rose from 58 percent (2007) to 82 percent (2019), with 18-point growth excluding options school graduates — related
• CPS's four-year high school graduation rate reached a record 85.0% in 2023, up about one percentage point from 84.1% in 2022 — related
• Within every CPS race/ethnicity group, young men graduated from high school at a lower rate than young women of the same race/ethnicity — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• College completion among immediate enrollees in the CPS class of 2015 shows large race/ethnicity and gender gaps, with fewer than a third of Black and Latino young men completing a bachelor's degree — related
• College completion among CPS 2017 immediate enrollees shows large disparities by race/ethnicity and gender, with fewer than one-third of Black and Latino young men completing a bachelor's degree — related
• Young women were more likely than young men to both immediately enroll in and persist through college, in both four-year and two-year colleges — related
• Bachelor's DAI varies sharply by race/ethnicity and gender: Black and Latino young men are projected at 10 and 13 percent versus a 19 percent district average — related