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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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Antelope Crossing Middle School

9200 PALMERSON DR., SACRAMENTO, CALIF., 95843 | Grades 6-8

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
950
41
0%
District 7,280 338 1%
State 5.34M 237,404 6%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

53%
24%

26%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

10%
5%

8%

Are

1%
1%

1% Am Indian
12%
12%

16% Asian
7%
6%

11% Black
52%
12%

11% Hispanic
26%
67%

59% White

Antelope Crossing Middle School, part of the Dry Creek Joint Elementary district, is located in Sacramento, California. The school reports an enrollment number of 950 students in grades six through eight, and it has 41 teachers on staff.

Antelope Crossing Middle School is below the state average but above the district average for the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 53 percent of students in California qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 26 percent of Antelope Crossing Middle School students qualify. At the district level, 24 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.

Antelope Crossing Middle School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 8 percent.

McFarland Middle School, in Mcfarland, Calif., is a higher-poverty school than Antelope Crossing Middle School, with 100 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 11 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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