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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Del Norte High School
1660 NIGHTHAWK LAND, SAN DIEGO, CALIF., 92127 | Grades 9-10
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
790
|
39
|
3% | 2 |
| District | 33.6K | 1,350 | 2% | 38 |
| State | 5.34M | 237,404 | 6% | 11 |
Del Norte High School, in San Diego, California, is part of the Poway Unified district. The school reports enrolling 790 students in grades nine and 10, and it has 39 teachers on staff.
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.
Del Norte High School offers two AP courses, and 11 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams of 56 percent is below the district average of 80 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.
Del Norte High School has an enrollment rate of 4 percent for physics classes, and 14 percent of students take physics. The enrollment rate for the school's gifted and talented program is 14 percent.
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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