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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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Harold Oliver Primary School Center

15811 SE MAIN ST, PORTLAND, ORE., 97233 | Grades K-3

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
655
31
6%
District 7,615 341 26%
State 426K 20,551 7%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

46%
56%

68%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

9%
6%

1%

Are

2%
3%

3% Am Indian
5%
9%

7% Asian
3%
4%

5% Black
20%
18%

23% Hispanic
66%
48%

39% White

Harold Oliver Primary School Center, part of the Centennial School District 28J, is located in Portland, Oregon. The school reports enrolling 655 students in grades kindergarten through three, and it has 31 teachers on staff.

Harold Oliver Primary School Center is above 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, 46 percent of students in Oregon are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, whereas 68 percent of Harold Oliver Primary School Center students are eligible. At the district level, 56 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.

Harold Oliver Primary School Center's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 1 percent.

Lyle Elementary School, in Dallas, Ore., is a lower-poverty school than Harold Oliver Primary School Center, with 32 percent of its students eligible 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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