Taylorsville High School, in Taylorsville, Mississippi, is part of the Smith County School District. The school reports enrolling 870 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 12, and it has 66 teachers on staff.

Taylorsville High School 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 63 percent of Taylorsville High School students are eligible. At the district level, 65 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.

Taylorsville High School has enrolls 2 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 3 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for the school's gifted and talented program is 0 percent.

Thomastown Attendance Center, in Carthage, Miss., is a higher-poverty school than Taylorsville High School, with 97 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 1 percent of students in its 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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