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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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School Of Engineering At Technology

1200 PLAZA DEL SOL, LOS ANGELES, CALIF., 90033 | Grades 9-11

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers AP Courses
This School
415
18
55% 2
District 611K 27,254 4% 5
State 5.34M 237,404 6% 11
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Take at Least One AP Course

19%
16%

4%

AP Pass Rate

59%
49%

0%

Take Advanced Math

12%
14%

5%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

10%
10%

6%

Take Chemistry

16%
24%

27%

Take Physics

7%
7%

0%

Participate in sports

32%
0.0%

2%

Are

1%
0%

0% Am Indian
12%
7%

0% Asian
7%
9%

0% Black
52%
76%

100% Hispanic
26%
8%

0% White

School Of Engineering At Technology, part of the Los Angeles Unified district, is located in Los Angeles, California. The school reports enrolling 415 students in grades nine through 11, and it has 18 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.

School Of Engineering At Technology offers two AP courses, and 4 percent of students participate in those classes.

School Of Engineering At Technology has enrolls 5 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 27 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for the school's gifted and talented program is 0 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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