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Academic Performance Index Scores for Each Race / Ethnicity (4 Charts)

Race and ethnicity are powerful predictors of Academic Performance Index scores (Chart 1 of 4).

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• API scores for Anglo students are consistently higher than the average API scores for their region.
• API scores for Latino and African American students are consistently lower than the average API scores for their region.
• Variations in average API scores across the region seem to be due to differences among the ethnic and racial compositions of each area.

Most Anglo students are in schools where they have a median Academic Performance Index score between 500 and 600 (Chart 2 of 4).

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Most Latino students are in schools where they have median Academic Performance Index scores between 500 and 600, which is substantially lower than the scores for Anglos (Chart 3 of 4).

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Most African American students are in schools where they have median Academic Performance Index scores between 500 and 700, which is comparable to the scores for Latinos, and substantially lower than the scores for Anglos (Chart 4 of 4).

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Last Updated: January 15, 2004