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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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Bradley High School

2800 WALKER ROAD, HILLIARD, OHIO, 43026 | Grades 9-11

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
1,100
75
0% 10
District 15.1K 973 6% 14
State 1.03M 62,027 6% 7
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Take at Least One AP Course

13%
31%

38%

AP Pass Rate

58%
71%

52%

Take Advanced Math

15%
10%

25%

Take Chemistry

16%
27%

27%

Take Physics

7%
12%

19%

Participate in sports

40%
0.0%

59%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
2%
6%

6% Asian
24%
8%

11% Black
4%
4%

4% Hispanic
68%
81%

79% White

Bradley High School, part of the Hilliard City district, is located in Hilliard, Ohio. The school reports an enrollment number of 1,100 students in grades nine through 11, and it has 75 teachers on staff.

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.

Bradley High School offers 10 AP courses, and 38 percent of students participate in those classes.

The school's pass rate for AP exams of 52 percent is below the district average of 71 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.

Bradley High School enrolls 25 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 27 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 19 percent.

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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