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“Broken promises — that’s all you get from the school.”

At Wolf Point High School in eastern Montana, and across the U.S., a fragmented education system is failing Native Americans.

In a collaboration with ProPublica, Times journalists examined a wealth of rarely tapped data to document their plight.

Native students post some of the worst academic outcomes of any demographic group, exacerbated by decades of discrimination, according to federal reports. In public schools, white students are twice as likely as Native students to take at least one advanced placement course, and Native students are more than twice as likely to be suspended, according to our analysis. Above, in Wolf Point.

Native students also score lower than nearly all other demographic groups on national tests, and only 72 percent of Native students graduate, the lowest of any demographic group.