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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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Warner Robins High School

401 SOUTH DAVIS DRIVE, WARNER ROBINS, GA., 31088 | Grades 9-12

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
2,165
126
2% 20
District 26.5K 1,825 1% 14
State 1.47M 103,585 8% 10
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

52%
48%

41%

Take at Least One AP Course

16%
21%

23%

AP Pass Rate

52%
58%

55%

Take Advanced Math

18%
27%

26%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

11%
10%

18%

Take Chemistry

17%
18%

17%

Take Physics

8%
4%

5%

Participate in sports

30%
0.0%

13%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
3%
2%

2% Asian
37%
35%

37% Black
12%
7%

4% Hispanic
45%
55%

56% White

Warner Robins High School, part of the Houston County district, is located in Warner Robins, Georgia. The school reports enrolling 2,165 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 126 teachers on staff.

Warner Robins High School is below both the state and district averages in terms of the percentage of its students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 52 percent of students in Georgia are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 41 percent of Warner Robins High School students are eligible. At the district level, 48 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.

Warner Robins High School offers 20 AP courses, and 23 percent of students participate in those classes.

The school's pass rate for AP exams of 55 percent is below the district average of 58 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.

Warner Robins High School's enrollment rates in chemistry, physics and advanced math subject areas are 17 percent, 5 percent and 26 percent, respectively. Gifted and talented at the school has an enrollment rate of 18 percent.

School Of Technology At Carver, in Atlanta, Ga., is a higher-poverty school than Warner Robins High School, with 89 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school hasn't reported or may not offer AP classes.

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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