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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John F. Kennedy High
61-127 PREAKNESS AVENUE, PATERSON, N.J., 07522 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
1,945
|
232
|
22% | 4 |
| District | 23.5K | 2,097 | 10% | 3 |
| State | 880K | 72,554 | 11% | 12 |
John F. Kennedy High, part of the Paterson district, is located in Paterson, New Jersey. The school reports an enrollment number of 1,945 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 232 teachers on staff.
John F. Kennedy High is above the state average but below the district average in terms of the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 35 percent of students in New Jersey qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 68 percent of John F. Kennedy High students do. At the district level, 86 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.
John F. Kennedy High offers four AP courses, and 2 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams of 17 percent is higher than the district average of 12 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.
John F. Kennedy High has an enrollment rate of 3 percent for advanced math classes, and 12 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 1 percent.
Millburn Sr High, in Millburn, New Jersey, is a lower-poverty school than John F. Kennedy High, with 1 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers 27 AP courses, and 72 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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