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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Halifax County Middle School
1011 MIDDLE SCHOOL CIR, SOUTH BOSTON, VA., 24592 | Grades 6-8
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | |
| This School |
1,365
|
117
|
9% |
| District | 6,005 | 485 | 6% |
| State | 1.13M | 81,901 | 9% |
Halifax County Middle School, in South Boston, Virginia, is part of the Halifax County Public Schools district. The school reports enrolling 1,365 students in grades six through eight, and it has 117 teachers on staff.
Halifax County Middle School is above the state average and on par with the district average in terms of the percentage of its students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 32 percent of students in Virginia qualify for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 59 percent of Halifax County Middle School students do. At the district level, 59 percent of students qualify.
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.
Halifax County Middle School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 22 percent.
Short Pump Middle School is a lower-poverty school than Halifax County Middle School, with 3 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 12 percent of students in its gifted and talented program. The school is located in Glen Allen, Va.
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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