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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.

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Holly Navarre Primary School

8019 ESCOLA ST, NAVARRE, FLA., 32566 | Grades K-2

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
690
47
28%
District 25.2K 1,544 15%
State 2.43M 163,474 19%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

50%
35%

35%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

6%
4%

1%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
3%
2%

4% Asian
24%
6%

6% Black
27%
3%

1% Hispanic
46%
89%

90% White

Holly Navarre Primary School, part of the Santa Rosa district, is located in Navarre, Florida. The school reports enrolling 690 students in grades kindergarten through two, and it has 47 teachers on staff.

Holly Navarre Primary School is below the state average and in line with the district average in terms of the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 50 percent of students in Florida qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 35 percent of Holly Navarre Primary School students do. At the district level, 35 percent qualify.

ProPublica's analysis found that all too often, states and schools provide poor students fewer educational programs like Advanced Placement, gifted and talented programs, and advanced math and science classes. Studies have linked participation in these programs with better outcomes later in life. Our analysis uses free and reduced-price lunch to estimate poverty at schools. We based our findings on the most comprehensive data set of access to advanced classes and special programs in U.S. public schools — known as the Civil Rights Data Set— released by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Holly Navarre Primary School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 1 percent.

Perry Primary School, in Perry, Fla., is a higher-poverty school than Holly Navarre Primary School, with 73 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school hasn't reported or may not have a gifted and talented program.

These data points were reported by schools and districts to the Office for Civil Rights. For more information about the data, see our full methodology.

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