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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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Marysville High School

800 AMRINE MILL RD, MARYSVILLE, OHIO, 43040 | Grades 9-12

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
1,545
73
5% 4
District 5,155 223 4% 4
State 1.03M 62,027 6% 7
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

37%
21%

16%

Take at Least One AP Course

13%
22%

22%

AP Pass Rate

58%
53%

53%

Take Advanced Math

15%
28%

28%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

7%
18%

24%

Take Chemistry

16%
15%

15%

Take Physics

7%
2%

2%

Participate in sports

40%
0.0%

30%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
2%
1%

1% Asian
24%
1%

1% Black
4%
1%

1% Hispanic
68%
97%

98% White

Marysville High School, part of the Marysville Exempted Village district, is located in Marysville, Ohio. The school reports an enrollment number of 1,545 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 73 teachers on staff.

Marysville High School 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, 37 percent of students in Ohio are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 16 percent of Marysville High School students are eligible. At the district level, 21 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.

Marysville High School offers four AP courses, and 22 percent of students participate in those classes.

The school's pass rate for AP exams matches the district's, each of which is 53 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.

Marysville High School's enrollment rates in chemistry, physics and advanced math subject areas are 15 percent, 2 percent and 28 percent, respectively. Gifted and talented at the school has an enrollment rate of 24 percent.

Chaney High School, in Youngstown, Ohio, is a higher-poverty school than Marysville High School, with 92 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers six 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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