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The Opportunity Gap

Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education?

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.

From http://projects.propublica.org/schools. © Copyright 2011 Pro Publica Inc.

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Clovis High School Freshman Academy

1400 CAMEO, CLOVIS, N.M., 88101 | Grades 9

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
570
42
21% N/A
District 7,955 493 12% 10
State 275K 17,350 10% 8
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

61%
66%

58%
State Avg: 61% District Avg: 66%

Take Advanced Math

8%
14%

0%
State Avg: 8% District Avg: 14%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

5%
5%

9%
State Avg: 5% District Avg: 5%

Take Chemistry

15%
10%

0%
State Avg: 15% District Avg: 10%

Take Physics

5%
1%

0%
State Avg: 5% District Avg: 1%

Participate in sports

35%
0.0%

38%
State Avg: 35% District Avg: 0.0%

Are

11%
1%

1% Am Indian
State Avg: 11% District Avg: 1%
1%
1%

1% Asian
State Avg: 1% District Avg: 1%
3%
9%

8% Black
State Avg: 3% District Avg: 9%
56%
51%

52% Hispanic
State Avg: 56% District Avg: 51%
28%
38%

39% White
State Avg: 28% District Avg: 38%

Clovis High School Freshman Academy, part of the Clovis Municipal Schools district, is located in Clovis, New Mexico. The school reports enrolling 570 students, and it has 42 teachers on staff.

Clovis High School Freshman Academy is below 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, 61 percent of students in New Mexico are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 58 percent of Clovis High School Freshman Academy students are eligible. At the district level, 66 percent 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.

Clovis High School Freshman Academy hasn't reported or may not offer AP courses.

Clovis High School Freshman Academy's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 9 percent.

Lovington Freshman Academy, in Lovington, N.M., is a higher-poverty school than Clovis High School Freshman Academy, with 62 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers three AP courses, and 33 percent of students are enrolled in those courses.

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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