- Less than 65% of all students attending public schools in the South complete high school with a regular diploma.
- There is a graduation gap of 27 percentage points between the highest and the lowest- performing groups.
- Very large disparities still remain among students from different racial and ethnic groups.
- The Whites are the most isolated of the major racial or ethnic groups within public education systems in the South.
- Segregation affects the lives of all students in detrimental ways.