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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Crete Monee High School
1515 W EXCHANGE ST, CRETE, ILL., 60417 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
1,485
|
104
|
32% | 11 |
| District | 3,730 | 240 | 21% | 11 |
| State | 1.36M | 84,195 | 14% | 11 |
Crete-Monee High School, part of the Crete Monee CUSD 201-U, is located in Crete, Illinois. The school reports enrolling 1,485 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 104 teachers on staff.
Crete-Monee High School is above the state average but below the district average in terms of the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 44 percent of students in Illinois are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 56 percent of Crete-Monee High School students do. At the district level, 62 percent of students are eligible.
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.
Crete-Monee High School offers 11 AP courses, and 13 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams is the same as the district's, both at 40 percent.
A school's AP pass rate is determined by the number of students who both sat for AP exams and passed some or all of those exams.
Crete-Monee High School has an enrollment rate of 19 percent for advanced math classes, and 26 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 21 percent.
Lake Park High School, a lower-poverty school than Crete-Monee High School, does not have any students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 24 percent of its students in AP classes. It is located in Roselle, Ill.
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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