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Mount Pleasant High School
5201 WASHINGTON STREET EXTENSI, WILMINGTON, DEL., 19809 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
835
|
65
|
3% | 18 |
| District | 10.2K | 716 | 6% | 21 |
| State | 107K | 7,041 | 10% | 11 |
Mount Pleasant High School, part of the Brandywine School District, is located in Wilmington, Delaware. The school reports enrolling 835 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 65 teachers on staff.
Mount Pleasant High 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, 40 percent of students in Delaware qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 39 percent of Mount Pleasant High School students qualify. At the district level, 34 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.
Mount Pleasant High School offers 18 AP courses, and 18 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams is 39 percent. This is lower than the district average of 53 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.
Mount Pleasant High School enrolls 19 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 27 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 10 percent.
Middletown High School, in Middletown, Delaware, is a lower-poverty school than Mount Pleasant High School, with 10 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 16 AP courses, and 16 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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