The bad news is that those numbers are still below the national average.
Excelencia in Education, a Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization, found that 39 percent of Silver State Latinos and whites graduate from college in four years, compared with 41 percent and 50 percent nationally.
Thirty-nine percent of Nevada’s population is Latino.
The 2014 report, conducted by co-founder Deborah Santiago, was based on 2009-2011 U.S. Census data.
“This is one of the very few states were there is no equity gap in graduation rates,” Santiago said.
If Latino students enroll as first-time, full-time freshmen, their success rates are equal to white students.
College graduation rates show an overall improvement from 2007-2008 Census numbers, when Nevada’s Latino and white graduation rates were 33.9 percent and 37.7 percent.
Part-time and nontraditional students, however, graduate at rates of 12 percent for Latino students and 15 percent for white students, which is lower than the national average.
Still, it also has improved from a gap of 3.7 percent in the organization’s previous report.
