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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Wwindsor Plainsboro South
346 CLARKSVILLE ROAD, PRINCETON JCT., N.J., 08550 | Grades 9-12
Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
This School |
1,670
|
120
|
8% | 17 |
District | 9,835 | 730 | 8% | 17 |
State | 880K | 72,554 | 11% | 12 |
Wwindsor-Plainsboro South, part of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional District, is located in Princeton Jct., New Jersey. The school reports enrolling 1,670 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 120 teachers on staff.
Wwindsor-Plainsboro South is below the state average and in line with 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 3 percent of Wwindsor-Plainsboro South students do. At the district level, 3 percent 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.
Wwindsor-Plainsboro South offers 17 AP courses, and 34 percent of students participate in those classes.
Wwindsor-Plainsboro South has an enrollment rate of 31 percent for math classes, and 26 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 22 percent, and the gifted and talented program has a participation rate of 6 percent.
International High is a higher-poverty school than Wwindsor-Plainsboro South, with 85 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Although Millburn Sr High reports offering AP coursework, there are no students taking those 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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