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Miseducation » Massachusetts » Springfield School District
High School Of Commerce
415 State Street, Springfield, MA 01105 | (413) 787-7220 | School Website | High School
1,388 Students | 100 Teachers
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School Composition
Opportunity
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This School
District
State
Students
91% Nonwhite Students
74% Students Who Get Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
58% High School Graduation Rate
Not Available Students Taking an AP Course
17% Students Taking the SAT or ACT
235 students
7% Students Enrolled in Physics
92 students
10% Students Enrolled in Advanced Math
142 students
30% Students Enrolled in Geometry
421 students
31% Students Enrolled in Biology
432 students
13% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
185 students
1% Students Enrolled in Calculus
18 students
Teachers & Resources
13.9 Students for Every Teacher
45% Inexperienced Teachers
29% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
Not Available Total AP Courses
9.5 Social Workers, Psychologists & School Counselors
This is a decimal because of part-time workers.
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The students at this school have access to:
Credit Recovery Program
Dual Enrollment Program
International Baccalaureate
... but do not have access to:
Gifted & Talented Program
Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Expulsion Composition
This School
District
State
Students
236 Total Out-of-School Suspended Students
17% of all students at this school
48 Total In-School Suspended Students
3% of all students at this school
15 Total Expelled Students
1% of all students at this school
Outcomes & Resources
730 Total Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension
Not Available Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
14 Total Arrests
14 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
15 Total Transfers to Alternative Schools
3.5 Total Security Guards & Law Enforcement Officers
This is a decimal because of part-time workers.
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Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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