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The Opportunity Gap

Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education?

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.

From http://projects.propublica.org/schools. © Copyright 2011 Pro Publica Inc.

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Bartram Trail High School

2050 ROBERTS RD, ST. JOHNS, FLA., 32259 | Grades 9-12

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
1,515
78
32% N/A
District 29.3K 1,817 55% 16
State 2.43M 163,474 19% 13
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

50%
19%

2%
State Avg: 50% District Avg: 19%

Take at Least One AP Course

37%
40%

57%
State Avg: 37% District Avg: 40%

AP Pass Rate

44%
60%

54%
State Avg: 44% District Avg: 60%

Take Advanced Math

30%
35%

43%
State Avg: 30% District Avg: 35%

Take Chemistry

16%
14%

15%
State Avg: 16% District Avg: 14%

Take Physics

5%
5%

5%
State Avg: 5% District Avg: 5%

Participate in sports

24%
0.0%

43%
State Avg: 24% District Avg: 0.0%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
State Avg: 0% District Avg: 0%
3%
3%

2% Asian
State Avg: 3% District Avg: 3%
24%
8%

5% Black
State Avg: 24% District Avg: 8%
27%
5%

5% Hispanic
State Avg: 27% District Avg: 5%
46%
84%

87% White
State Avg: 46% District Avg: 84%

Bartram Trail High School, part of the St. Johns district, is located in St. Johns, Florida. The school reports enrolling 1,515 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 78 teachers on staff.

Bartram Trail High School is below both the state and district averages for the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 50 percent of students in Florida qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, whereas 2 percent of students at Bartram Trail High School are eligible. At the district level, 19 percent are eligible.

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.

Bartram Trail High School enrolls 57 percent of its students in AP classes.

The school's pass rate for AP exams of 54 percent is below the district average of 60 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.

Bartram Trail High School enrolls 43 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 15 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 5 percent.

Glades Central High School, in Belle Glade, Fla., is a higher-poverty school than Bartram Trail High School, with 89 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 27 AP courses, and 48 percent of students are enrolled in those courses.

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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