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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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East Irondequoit Middle School

155 DENSMORE RD, ROCHESTER, N.Y., 14609 | Grades 6-8

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
700
75
15%
District 3,135 303 17%
State 2.07M 171,244 14%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

49%
44%

44%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
10%
2%

2% Asian
22%
18%

21% Black
26%
11%

11% Hispanic
42%
65%

63% White

East Irondequoit Middle School, part of the East Irondequoit Central School District, is located in Rochester, New York. The school reports enrolling 700 students in grades six through eight, and it has 75 teachers on staff.

East Irondequoit Middle School is below the state average and on par with the district average for the percentage of its students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 49 percent of students in New York are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 44 percent of East Irondequoit Middle School students are eligible. At the district level, 44 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.

The school hasn't reported or may not have a gifted and talented program.

JHS 143 Eleanor Roosevelt, in New York, N.Y., is a higher-poverty school than East Irondequoit Middle School, with 100 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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