Edinburg Attendance Center, in Carthage, Mississippi, is part of the Leake County School District. The school reports enrolling 600 students in grades kindergarten through 12, and it has 36 teachers on staff.

Edinburg Attendance Center is below both the state and district averages in terms of the percentage of its students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 64 percent of students in Mississippi are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 57 percent of Edinburg Attendance Center students are eligible. At the district level, 78 percent 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.

Edinburg Attendance Center's enrollment rates in chemistry, physics and advanced math subject areas are 3 percent, 2 percent and 8 percent, respectively. Gifted and talented at the school has an enrollment rate of 8 percent.

Mount Olive Attendance Center, in Mount Olive, Miss., is a higher-poverty school than Edinburg Attendance Center, with 91 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 5 percent of students in the 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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