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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Rome Free Academy
95 DART CIRCLE, ROME, N.Y., 13441 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
1,700
|
128
|
3% | 5 |
| District | 5,580 | 467 | 6% | 5 |
| State | 2.07M | 171,244 | 14% | 7 |
Rome Free Academy, part of the Rome City School District, is located in Rome, New York. The school reports an enrollment number of 1,700 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 128 teachers on staff.
Rome Free Academy is below both the state and district averages for the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 49 percent of students in New York qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, whereas 43 percent of students at Rome Free Academy are eligible. At the district level, 50 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.
Rome Free Academy offers five AP courses, and 6 percent of students participate in those classes.
Rome Free Academy has an enrollment rate of 8 percent for advanced math classes, and 7 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 9 percent.
High School For Teaching And The Professions, in Bronx, N.Y., is a higher-poverty school than Rome Free Academy, with 99 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers four AP courses, and 11 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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