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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Hall High School
6700 H ST, LITTLE ROCK, ARK., 72205 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
1,390
|
107
|
6% | N/A |
| District | 25.3K | 1,648 | 6% | 8 |
| State | 255K | 16,851 | 8% | 12 |
Hall High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas, is part of the Little Rock School District. The school reports enrolling 1,390 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 107 teachers on staff.
Hall High School is above both the state and district averages for the percentage of students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 54 percent of students in Arkansas qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, while 70 percent of students at Hall High School do. At the district level, 64 percent of students qualify.
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.
Hall High School enrolls 20 percent of its students in AP classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams is 5 percent. This is lower than the district average of 25 percent.
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.
Hall High School has an enrollment rate of 15 percent for advanced math classes, and 26 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for the school's gifted and talented program is 0 percent.
Bryant High School, in Bryant, Arkansas, is a lower-poverty school than Hall High School, with 20 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 14 AP courses, and 20 percent of students are enrolled in those classs.
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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