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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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Ivan Sand Fairview Program

1232 SCHOOL STREET, ELK RIVER, MINN., 55330 | Grades 8-12

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
5
0
0% N/A
District 12.3K 502 7% 9
State 526K 30,385 7% 9
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

30%
16%

67%

Take Advanced Math

20%
14%

0%

Take Chemistry

21%
18%

0%

Take Physics

11%
6%

0%

Are

1%
1%

0% Am Indian
8%
3%

0% Asian
12%
3%

0% Black
7%
2%

0% Hispanic
71%
91%

100% White

Ivan Sand Fairview Program, in Elk River, Minnesota, is part of the Elk River Area Public School District. The school reports enrolling five students in grades eight through 12, and it has zero teachers on staff.

Ivan Sand Fairview Program is above both the state and district averages for the percentage of students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 30 percent of students in Minnesota qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, while 67 percent of students at Ivan Sand Fairview Program do. At the district level, 16 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.

Ivan Sand Fairview Program hasn't reported or may not offer AP courses.

Broadway Education Place, in Minneapolis, Minn., is a higher-poverty school than Ivan Sand Fairview Program, with 90 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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