California School Dashboard · Graduation Rate
Overview
Where your district stands
Dashboard results by student group, every year reported (none 2020–22).
Orenda Reflections
See who your district's systems are serving.
Every student deserves a premium education, no matter their demographic or background. Orenda Reflections brings your district's public data into one clear view, so your team can see how each group of students is being served and where gaps between racial and socioeconomic groups persist. Equity is reached when those gaps close. It shows you how far you have to go, and where your systems can begin to change.
Built from public data
Every student group in view
Your first step toward closing the gap
Orenda Reflections · Overview
Example District · District Level (All Schools)
Sample data, not your district · illustrative only
4-year graduation rate88.2%Up from 84.3% in 2017-18
Graduates meeting UC/CSU (A–G)54.0%Up from 33.0% in 2017-18
ELA met or exceeded58.7%+9.9 pts vs. state
Chronically absent27.0%State: 19.4%
End-of-Journey · class of 2024-25
California School Dashboard · All Students
Your report shows these results for every student group the state reports, across every year available.
Chronic absenceOrange
SuspensionOrange
ELAGreen
MathYellow
EL progressYellow
College & CareerGreen
GraduationGreen
What's inside
What your report reveals
A clear picture of who your district serves and how every group of students is doing. A starting point for conversations from the classroom to the boardroom.
Demographics comparison · students vs. teachers
Students (2,013)
Teachers (101)
Hispanic or LatinoWhiteOther / not reported
Demographics
Who your students and educators are
Students and staff side by side.
Chronic absenteeism · district vs. State of California
District · 27.0%State · 19.4%
Attendance & Behavior
Who is missing school, and who is being sent home
Chronic absence and suspensions by student group, with state context.
End-of-Journey · graduation and UC/CSU rates
Grad rate · 84.3% → 88.2%UC/CSU rate · 33.0% → 54.0%
Enrollment & Journey
From 9th grade to graduation
Who stays, who graduates, and who leaves college-ready.
% of graduates meeting UC/CSU requirements
Enrollment & Journey
Which gaps are closing, and which aren't
Graduation and A–G eligibility for every student group over time.
SBAC performance levels · grade 11
ELA · 58.7% met or exceeded+9.9 pts vs. state
Math · 24.7% met or exceeded−12.6 pts vs. state
Not metNearly metMetExceeded
Assessment
How every student is achieving
ELA and Math by student group, with statewide benchmarks.
Why districts request it
A shared starting point for systems change
One clear view
Your public data turned into clear, actionable insights, so your team can move straight from what the numbers show to what to do next.
The longer story
Trends across years, with pandemic years clearly marked, so you can tell real change from noise.
Every student, visible
English Learners, students with disabilities, foster and homeless youth, low-income students and every racial and ethnic group, wherever the state reports them. No group hidden in an average.
Nothing to set up
Built from published, aggregate results. No student records and no system connection required.
What's in your report
Each snapshot comes with a plain-language takeaway on what your data shows.
At a glanceHeadline findingGraduation and A–G ratesELA vs. stateChronic absence vs. stateGraduating cohortDashboard colors
OverviewDashboard graduation rate by student group
DemographicsStudents vs. teachers
Attendance & BehaviorChronic absenteeism vs. state
Enrollment & JourneyGraduation and A–G over timeA–G eligibility by student group
AssessmentSBAC performance levels by student group
Where the data comes from
Only published, aggregate results are used. No student records are collected or shared. Results the state suppresses to protect small groups of students stay suppressed in your report.
California Department of Education public dataEnrollment, staffing, chronic absenteeism, suspensions, graduation, A–G and CAASPP (SBAC) results, as published by the state.cde.ca.gov/ds ↗
California School DashboardState Dashboard results by student group for every year they were reported.caschooldashboard.org ↗
How it works
Getting your report
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Choose your district
Search by district name and pick it from the list.
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Enter your district email
Your report link goes only to that inbox, so your report stays with your district's team.
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Start the conversation
Your report arrives in your inbox, ready to share with your cabinet, your board and your school leaders.
About Orenda Education
To what degree are demographics determining destiny?
For more than 25 years, Orenda has partnered with California's schools and districts to shatter inequitable education systems. Through equity-driven systems work, we help districts accelerate learning, close the student opportunity gap and combat racial and educational injustice, so that every student receives a premium education that is true, right and just.
Orenda Reflections is your first look at two questions we ask with every partner: how effective are our schools with the students we serve, and what systemic inequity traps might be standing in the way?
Let's agree on simple measures of student achievement
Graduation rate
Four-year cohort graduation for All Students and every student group.
A–G rate
The share of graduates who meet UC/CSU requirements, keeping a four-year college in reach.
Achievement gap
A gap of more than 10 percentage points between socioeconomically disadvantaged students and their peers who are not, or between any student group and the highest-performing group. Equity is reached when those gaps close.
Student needs vary. Destiny doesn't have to.
Achievement often tracks how vulnerable students are, but it doesn't have to.
Schools that serve vulnerable students well have defied the odds, proving education can be an equalizing force.
Orenda's Vulnerability Index tiers the state and its counties by these factors to show the range of student needs:
Neighborhood contextStudent populationPoverty% English learnersCommunity safety% MobilityEducational attainment% Students with disabilities
What's possible when systems change
25%increase in cohort graduation rateOver 5 years
18%increase in A–G completion rateOver 5 years
24%decrease in cohort dropout rateOver 5 years
40%increase in ELA and math achievementOver 9 years
Results reported by Orenda partner districts implementing the systems work with fidelity.
Ready to see how every student is being served?
Request your district's free report in under a minute. When you're ready to talk about what it shows, and what's possible, our partnership team is here.