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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Independence Middle School
1370 DUNSTAN LN, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA., 23455 | Grades 6-8
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | |
| This School |
1,255
|
91
|
5% |
| District | 70.1K | 5,180 | 4% |
| State | 1.13M | 81,901 | 9% |
Independence Middle School, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is part of the Virginia Beach City Public Schools district. The school reports enrolling 1,255 students in grades six through eight, and it has 91 teachers on staff.
Independence Middle School is below the state average and in line 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 28 percent of Independence Middle School students do. At the district level, 28 percent 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.
Independence Middle School's enrollment rate for gifted and talented is 13 percent.
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, in Richmond, Va., is a higher-poverty school than Independence Middle School, with 99 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school enrolls 6 percent of students in the gifted and talented program.
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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