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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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New Little River Elementary School

3170 TRICKUM ROAD, WOODSTOCK, GA., 30188 | Grades K-6

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
1,165
78
4%
District 38.3K 2,746 2%
State 1.47M 103,585 8%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

11%
15%

12%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
3%
2%

6% Asian
37%
7%

9% Black
12%
13%

20% Hispanic
45%
76%

60% White

New Little River Elementary School, in Woodstock, Georgia, is part of the Cherokee County School District. The school reports enrolling 1,165 students in grades kindergarten through six, and it has 78 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.

New Little River Elementary School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 12 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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