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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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Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship

2000 EDGEWOOD ST, BALTIMORE, MD., 21216 | Grades 9-12

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
520
46
24% 3
District 74K 4,940 21% 3
State 826K 56,262 11% 15
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

34%
74%

66%

Take at Least One AP Course

23%
8%

3%

Take Advanced Math

17%
8%

1%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

25%
5%

1%

Take Chemistry

20%
22%

23%

Take Physics

12%
17%

12%

Participate in sports

38%
0.0%

19%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
6%
1%

0% Asian
37%
88%

98% Black
10%
3%

0% Hispanic
45%
8%

1% White

Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship, part of the Baltimore City Public Schools district, is located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school reports enrolling 520 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 46 teachers on staff.

Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship is above the state average but below the district average in terms of the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 34 percent of students in Maryland are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 66 percent of Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship students do. At the district level, 74 percent of students 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.

Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship offers three AP courses, and 3 percent of students participate in those classes.

Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship has an enrollment rate of 1 percent for math classes, and 23 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 12 percent, and the gifted and talented program has a participation rate of 1 percent.

Glenelg High, in Glenelg, Maryland, is a lower-poverty school than Institute Of Business And Entrepreneurship, with 2 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 19 AP courses, and 25 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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