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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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Clarence Rogers School

199 WILMOT ROAD, NEW HAVEN, CONN., 06511 | Grades K-2

Districts with 3,000 or more students
Students Total Teachers Inexp. Teachers
This School
150
10
20%
District 19.2K 1,364 12%
State 407K 31,215 8%
 
State Average
 
District Average

Percentage of relevant students who...

Get Free/Reduced Price Lunch

34%
74%

83%

Are in a Gifted/Talented Program

6%
3%

0%

Are

0%
0%

0% Am Indian
5%
1%

0% Asian
16%
47%

67% Black
21%
37%

23% Hispanic
58%
14%

7% White

Clarence Rogers School, part of the New Haven School District, is located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school reports an enrollment number of 150 students in grades kindergarten through two, and it has 10 teachers on staff.

Clarence Rogers School is above both the state and district averages for the percentage of students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch. On average, 34 percent of students in Connecticut qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, while 83 percent of students at Clarence Rogers School do. At the district level, 74 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.

King Street Primary School, in Danbury, Conn., is a lower-poverty school than Clarence Rogers School, with 22 percent of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.

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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