This database was last updated in October 2018, and its latest data is from the 2015-16 school year. Researchers can find more recent data at the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection site.
Miseducation
California
6.28M Students | 283K Teachers | 1,557 Districts | 10.1K Schools | 26 Districts Under Desegregation Order
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California Composition
Opportunity
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AP Course Composition
Gifted & Talented Composition
This State
National
Students
76% Nonwhite Students
59% Students Who Get Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
83% High School Graduation Rate
22% Students Taking an AP Course
425K students
7% Students in a Gifted & Talented Program
433K students
16% Students Taking the SAT or ACT
300K students
8% Students Enrolled in Physics
154K students
14% Students Enrolled in Advanced Math
273K students
18% Students Enrolled in Geometry
357K students
29% Students Enrolled in Biology
567K students
18% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
351K students
5% Students Enrolled in Calculus
101K students
1%Students Enrolled in 8th-Grade Algebra
78.8K students
Teachers & Resources
22.2 Students for Every Teacher
12% Inexperienced Teachers
23% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
12.8 Average Number of AP Courses
3 Social Workers, Psychologists & Counselors per 1000 students
1,492 Schools With Credit Recovery Programs
567 Schools With Dual Enrollment Programs
5,639 Schools With Gifted & Talented Programs
92 Schools With International Baccalaureates
This State
National
Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Expulsion Composition
This State
National
Students
242K Total Out-of-School Suspended Students
4% of all students in this state
90.8K Total In-School Suspended Students
13.1K Total Expelled Students
< 1% of all students in this state
Outcomes & Resources
75 Average Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension, per School
2.4 Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
0.3 Average Arrests, per School
3424 Total Arrests
2.9 Average Referrals to Law Enforcement, per School
28435 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
0.3 Average Transfers to Alternative Schools, per School
0.9 Security Guard or Law Enforcement Officer per 1000 students
State
National
All School Districts
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Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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Data specific to high school testing or high school level courses (including geometry, biology, calculus, AP enrollment, SAT testing rates, etc.) is calculated out of total high school enrollment, while data for other classes (such as eighth-grade algebra) is calculated out of total student enrollment. Read more about our data in our methodology →