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Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education?

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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Educational Access in Illinois

Districts with 3,000 or more students.
1.36M
Students
84.2K
Teachers
148
Districts
2,008
Schools

Percentage of relevant students who...

 
National Average

AP Pass Rate

55%

67%

Take Chemistry

18%

21%

Take Physics

8%

12%

Are

1%

0% Am Indian
6%

5% Asian
18%

24% Black
25%

27% Hispanic
49%

43% White

At a Glance

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  • Unified Districts
  • Elementary Districts
  • Secondary Districts
  • Free/Reduced Lunch
  • AP Enrollment
  • AP Pass Rate
  • Advanced Math Enrollment
  • Gifted/Talented Enrollment
 

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Addison School District 4
Adlai E Stevenson High School District 125
Alton CUSD 11
Antioch CCSD 34
Arlington Heights School District 25
Aurora East USD 131
Aurora West USD 129
Ball Chatham CUSD 5
Barrington CUSD 220
Batavia USD 101
Belleville School District 118
Belleville Township High School District 201
Belvidere CUSD 100
Berwyn North School District 98
Berwyn South School District 100
Bloomington School District 87
Bloom Township High School District 206
Bremen Chsd 228
Burbank School District 111
Cahokia CUSD 187
Cary CCSD 26
CCSD 62
CCSD 93
Central CUSD 301
Champaign CUSD 4
Chicago Heights School District 170
Chicago Public Schools
Chsd 128
Chsd 155
Chsd 218
Chsd 99
Cicero School District 99
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Community Consolidated School District 59
Cons High School District 230
Cons School District 158
Cook County School District 130
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Crystal Lake CCSD 47
CUSD 200
CUSD 300
Danville CCSD 118
Decatur School District 61
Deerfield School District 109
Dekalb CUSD 428
Dolton School District 148
Dolton School District 149
Downers Grove Gsd 58
Dunlap CUSD 323
Du Page High School District 88
East Maine School District 63
East St Louis School District 189
Edwardsville CUSD 7
Elmhurst School District 205
Evanston CCSD 65
Evanston Township High School District 202
Freeport School District 145
Galesburg CUSD 205
Geneva CUSD 304
Glenbard Township High School District 87
Glen Ellyn School District 41
Glenview CCSD 34
Granite City CUSD 9
Grayslake CCSD 46
Harlem Ud 122
Hawthorn CCSD 73
Highland CUSD 5
Hinsdale CCSD 181
Hinsdale Township High School District 86
Homer CCSD 33 C
Indian Prairie CUSD 204
Jacksonville School District 117
Joliet Public School District 86
Joliet Township High School District 204
J S Morton High School District 201
Kaneland CUSD 302
Kankakee School District 111
Kildeer Countryside CCSD 96
Kirby School District 140
Lake Park Chsd 108
Lake Villa CCSD 41
Lake Zurich CUSD 95
Leyden Chsd 212
Lincoln Way Chsd 210
Lockport Township High School District 205
Lombard School District 44
Lyons Township High School District 204
Maine Township High School District 207
Marion CUSD 2
Mascoutah CUSD 19
Matteson Elementary School District 162
Mattoon CUSD 2
Maywood Melrose Park Broadview 89
Mc Henry CCSD 15
Mc Lean County USD 5
Minooka Elementary CCSD 201
Moline USD 40
Naperville CUSD 203
New Lenox School District 122
New Trier Township High School District 203
Niles Township Chsd 219
North Chicago School District 187
Northfield Township High School District 225
North Shore School District 112
Oak Park Elementary School District 97
Oak Park River Forest School District 200
O Fallon CCSD 90
Orland School District 135
Oswego CUSD 308
Palatine CCSD 15
Park Ridge CCSD 64
Pekin Public School District 108
Peoria School District 150
Plainfield School District 202
Prairie Hills Elementary School District 144
Proviso Township High School District 209 R
Quincy School District 172
Rich Township High School District 227

Rockford School District 205
Rock Island School District 41
Round Lake CUSD 116
Schaumburg CCSD 54
School Disrict U 46
School District 45 Dupage County
Springfield School District 186
St Charles CUSD 303
Sterling CUSD 5
Summit Hill School District 161
Sycamore School District #427
Taylorville CUSD 3
Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215
Thornton Township High School District 205
Township High School District 113
Township High School District 211
Township High School District 214
Triad CUSD 2
Troy CCSD 30 C
Urbana School District 116
Valley View CUSD
Warren Township High School District 121
Wauconda CUSD 118
Waukegan CUSD 60
West Chicago Elementary School District 33
Wheeling CCSD 21
Wilmette School District 39
Woodland CCSD 50
Woodstock CUSD 200
Yorkville CUSD 115
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