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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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Chapel Glen Elementary School

701 LANSDOWNE RD, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., 46234 | Grades K-6

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
800
40
15%
District 15.6K 929 13%
State 720K 41,652 9%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

43%
62%

67%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

14%
12%

6%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
2%
1%

1% Asian
17%
35%

36% Black
9%
16%

14% Hispanic
70%
47%

48% White

Chapel Glen Elementary School, part of the MSD Wayne Township, is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school reports enrolling 800 students in grades kindergarten through six, and it has 40 teachers on staff.

Chapel Glen Elementary School is above both the state and district averages for the percentage of students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 43 percent of students in Indiana qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, while 67 percent of students at Chapel Glen Elementary School do. At the district level, 62 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.

Chapel Glen Elementary School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 6 percent.

Childs Elementary School, in Bloomington, Ind., is a lower-poverty school than Chapel Glen Elementary School, with 8 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school hasn't reported or may not have a gifted and talented program.

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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