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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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Carroll High School

800 WHITE CHAPEL BLVD, SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, 76092 | Grades 9-10

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
1,300
86
6% 4
District 6,520 439 8% 0
State 4.01M 269,017 14% 15
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

48%
2%

1%

Take at Least One AP Course

20%
10%

10%

AP Pass Rate

48%

96%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

8%
20%

23%

Take Chemistry

26%

47%

Take Physics

14%

0%

Participate in sports

32%
0.0%

34%

Are

0%
0%

1% Am Indian
4%
8%

7% Asian
15%
2%

3% Black
50%
5%

4% Hispanic
29%
84%

85% White

Carroll High School, part of the Carroll ISD, is located in Southlake, Texas. The school reports an enrollment number of 1,300 students in grades nine and 10, and it has 86 teachers on staff.

Carroll High School is below both the state and district averages for the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 48 percent of students in Texas qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, whereas 1 percent of students at Carroll High School are eligible. At the district level, 2 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.

Carroll High School offers four AP courses, and 10 percent of students participate in those classes.

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.

Beauregard High School has an enrollment rate of 47 percent for chemistry classes, while 23 percent of students are in the gifted and talented program.

International High School, in Austin, Texas, is a higher-poverty school than Carroll High School, with 95 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers one AP course, and 9 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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