The highest-poverty public K-12 schools in the United States
1,269 public K-12 schools in the United States appear in this ranking of the highest-poverty public K-12 schools, ranked by share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. North Lake School leads the list at 1329%, against a median of 62.4% across the ranked schools.
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