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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Oswego East High School
1525 HARVEY RD, OSWEGO, ILL., 60543 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
2,165
|
132
|
11% | 16 |
| District | 16.2K | 876 | 9% | 15 |
| State | 1.36M | 84,195 | 14% | 11 |
Oswego East High School, part of the Oswego CUSD 308, is located in Oswego, Illinois. The school reports an enrollment number of 2,165 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 132 teachers on staff.
Oswego East High School is below the state average but above the district average for the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 44 percent of students in Illinois qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 22 percent of Oswego East High School students qualify. At the district level, 16 percent of students 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.
Oswego East High School offers 16 AP courses, and 8 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams of 72 percent is higher than the district average of 71 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.
Oswego East High School's enrollment rates in chemistry, physics and advanced math subject areas are 19 percent, 8 percent and 12 percent, respectively. Gifted and talented at the school has an enrollment rate of 12 percent.
Chicago Vocational Career Acad High School, in Chicago, Ill., is a higher-poverty school than Oswego East High School, with 100 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers two AP courses, and 3 percent of students are enrolled in those courses.
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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