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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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Sissonville High School
6100 SISSONVILLE DR, CHARLESTON, W.VA., 25312 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
605
|
42
|
0% | 4 |
| District | 28.4K | 1,803 | 8% | 8 |
| State | 241K | 15,894 | 9% | 7 |
Sissonville High School, in Charleston, West Virginia, is part of the Kanawha County Schools district. The school reports enrolling 605 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 42 teachers on staff.
Sissonville 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, 49 percent of students in West Virginia are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, while 40 percent of Sissonville High School students are eligible. At the district level, 52 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.
Sissonville High School offers four AP courses, and 7 percent of students participate in those classes.
Sissonville High School has an enrollment rate of 13 percent for advanced math classes, and 12 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 2 percent.
Big Creek High School, in War, W. Va., is a higher-poverty school than Sissonville High School, with 77 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers four AP courses, and 14 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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