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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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Justin F Kimball High School

3606 S WESTMORELAND RD, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75233 | Grades 9-12

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
1,355
99
11% 8
District 156K 10,584 10% 15
State 4.01M 269,017 14% 15
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

48%
86%

76%

Take at Least One AP Course

20%
25%

13%

AP Pass Rate

48%
34%

11%

Take Advanced Math

10%
23%

14%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

8%
11%

8%

Take Chemistry

26%
28%

27%

Take Physics

14%
16%

20%

Participate in sports

32%
0.0%

30%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
4%
1%

0% Asian
15%
26%

46% Black
50%
68%

53% Hispanic
29%
4%

1% White

Justin F Kimball High School, part of the Dallas ISD, is located in Dallas, Texas. The school reports enrolling 1,355 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 99 teachers on staff.

Justin F Kimball High School 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, 48 percent of students in Texas are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 76 percent of Justin F Kimball High School students do. At the district level, 86 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.

Justin F Kimball High School offers eight AP courses, and 13 percent of students participate in those classes.

The school's pass rate for AP exams of 11 percent is below the district average of 34 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.

Justin F Kimball High School has an enrollment rate of 14 percent for math classes, and 27 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 20 percent, and the gifted and talented program has a participation rate of 8 percent.

Highland Park High School, a lower-poverty school than Justin F Kimball High School, does not have any students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 56 percent of its students in AP classes. It is also located in Dallas, Texas.

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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