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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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North Lenoir High
2400 INSTITUTE ROAD, LA GRANGE, N.C., 28551 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
985
|
63
|
8% | 5 |
| District | 9,010 | 591 | 9% | 4 |
| State | 1.36M | 88,261 | 10% | 8 |
North Lenoir High, in La Grange, North Carolina, is part of the Lenoir County Public Schools district. The school reports enrolling 985 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 63 teachers on staff.
North Lenoir High is above the state average but below the district average in terms of the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 34 percent of students in North Carolina are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 36 percent of North Lenoir High students do. At the district level, 55 percent of students 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.
North Lenoir High offers five AP courses, and 7 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams of 17 percent is below the district average of 19 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.
North Lenoir High has enrolls 9 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 9 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for the school's gifted and talented program is 0 percent.
Southeast Halifax High, in Halifax, N.C., is a higher-poverty school than North Lenoir High, with 78 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers two AP courses, and 7 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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