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Health & Human Services High School
70-71 NORTH PARISH ROAD, LAWRENCE, MASS., 01843 | Grades 9-12
Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
This School |
475
|
38
|
5% | 5 |
District | 12K | 947 | 8% | 5 |
State | 645K | 46,071 | 12% | 10 |
Health & Human Services High School, part of the Lawrence district, is located in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The school reports an enrollment number of 475 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 38 teachers on staff.
Health & Human Services High School is above 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, 35 percent of students in Massachusetts are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, whereas 89 percent of Health & Human Services High School students are eligible. At the district level, 87 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.
Health & Human Services High School offers five AP courses, and 12 percent of students participate in those classes.
For AP tests, the school's pass rate is below the district average, with 5 percent of students passing some or all AP tests. Compare this to the district rate of 10 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.
Health & Human Services High School has an enrollment rate of 4 percent for advanced math classes, and 9 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 19 percent.
Medfield Senior High, in Medfield, Massachusetts, is a lower-poverty school than Health & Human Services High School, with 1 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 12 AP courses, and 34 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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