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The Opportunity Gap

Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education?

This database was last updated in January 2013 and should only be used as a historical snapshot of data from the 2009-10 school year. For more recent data on public and charter schools, check out Miseducation.

ProPublica analyzed federal education data from the 2009-2010 school year to examine whether states provide high-poverty schools equal access to advanced courses and special programs that researchers say will help them later in life. This is the first nationwide picture of exactly which courses are being taken at which schools and districts across the country. More than three-quarters of all public school children are represented. Read our story and our methodology.

From http://projects.propublica.org/schools. © Copyright 2011 Pro Publica Inc.

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Rapides Parish School Board (district)

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Students Inexp. Teachers Avg. AP Courses Schools offering
Gifted/Talented Education
This District
23K
10% 4 22
State 606K 11% 6 803

District Schools

 
State Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

63%
66%

66%
State Avg: 63% District Avg: 66%

Take at Least One AP Course

7%
5%

5%
State Avg: 7% District Avg: 5%

AP Pass Rate

32%
66%

66%
State Avg: 32% District Avg: 66%

Take Advanced Math

10%
11%

11%
State Avg: 10% District Avg: 11%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

4%
4%

4%
State Avg: 4% District Avg: 4%

Take Chemistry

18%
16%

16%
State Avg: 18% District Avg: 16%

Take Physics

6%
6%

6%
State Avg: 6% District Avg: 6%

Are

1%

1% Am Indian
1%

1% Asian
43%

42% Black
3%

2% Hispanic
51%

53% White