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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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Victory Collegiate High School

6565 FLATLANDS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N.Y., 11236 | Grades 9-11

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
240
14
29% N/A
District 959K 83,265 21% 2
State 2.07M 171,244 14% 7
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

49%
72%

76%
State Avg: 49% District Avg: 72%

Take Advanced Math

16%
15%

0%
State Avg: 16% District Avg: 15%

Take Chemistry

17%
15%

40%
State Avg: 17% District Avg: 15%

Take Physics

9%
8%

31%
State Avg: 9% District Avg: 8%

Are

0%
0%

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

0% Asian
State Avg: 10% District Avg: 15%
22%
30%

90% Black
State Avg: 22% District Avg: 30%
26%
40%

8% Hispanic
State Avg: 26% District Avg: 40%
42%
14%

2% White
State Avg: 42% District Avg: 14%

Victory Collegiate High School, part of the New York City Public Schools district, is located in Brooklyn, New York. The school reports an enrollment number of 240 students in grades nine through 11, and it has 14 teachers on staff.

Victory Collegiate High School is above both the state and district averages for the percentage of students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 49 percent of students in New York qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, while 76 percent of students at Victory Collegiate High School do. At the district level, 72 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.

Victory Collegiate High School hasn't reported or may not offer AP courses.

Victory Collegiate High School enrolls 31 percent of students in physics classes, and 40 percent of students take chemistry.

Multicultural High School is a lower-poverty school than Victory Collegiate High School. It does not have any students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school hasn't reported or may not offer AP courses. The school is also in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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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