For Immediate Release: November
13, 2014
Clear Creek Amana High
School Placed on the College Board’s 5th Annual AP® District Honor
Roll for Significant Gains in Student Access and Success
A Record 547 School Districts Across the Nation Are Honored
Tiffin, IA — Clear Creek Amana is one of 547 school districts in the U.S. and
Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the 5th Annual AP® District Honor Roll for increasing access to AP course work while simultaneously maintaining or
increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP
Exams. 2014
is a milestone year for the AP District Honor Roll, and more districts are
achieving this objective than ever before. Reaching
these goals indicates that the district is successfully identifying
motivated, academically prepared students who are ready for the opportunity of
AP. Since 2012, Clear
Creek Amana has increased the number of
students participating in AP while improving the number of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher.
Data from 2014
show that among African American, Hispanic, and Native American students with a
high degree of readiness for AP, only about half of students are participating.
The first step to delivering the
opportunity of AP to students is providing access by ensuring courses are
available, that gatekeeping stops, and that the doors are equitably opened so
these students can participate. Clear Creek Amana is committed to expanding the
availability of AP courses among prepared and motivated students of all
backgrounds.
“The devoted teachers and administrators in this district
are delivering an undeniable benefit to their students: opportunity. When
coupled with a student’s hard work, such opportunities can have myriad outcomes,
whether building confidence, learning to craft effective arguments, earning
credit for college, or persisting to graduate from college on time.”
said Trevor Packer, the College Board’s senior vice president of AP and
Instruction. “We applaud your conviction that a more diverse population of
students is ready for the sort of rigor that will prepare them for success in
college.”
Helping
more students learn at a higher level and
earn higher AP scores is an objective of all members of the AP community, from
AP teachers to district and school administrators to college professors. Many
districts are experimenting with a variety of initiatives and strategies to
determine how to simultaneously expand access and improve student performance.
In 2014, more than 3,800 colleges and
universities around the world received AP scores for college credit, advanced placement,
and/or consideration in the admission process, with many colleges and
universities in the United States offering credit in one or more subjects for
qualifying AP scores.
Inclusion on the 5th Annual AP District Honor
Roll is based on the examination of three years of AP data, from 2012 to 2014,
looking across 34 AP Exams, including world language and culture. The following
criteria were used.
Districts
must:
- · Increase participation/access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, at least 6 percent in medium districts, and at least 11 percent in small districts;
- · Increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students; and
- · Improve performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2014 scoring a 3 or higher to those in 2012, unless the district has already attained a performance level at which more than 70 percent of its AP students are scoring a 3 or higher.
When these
outcomes have been achieved among an AP student population in which 30 percent
or more are underrepresented minority students (Black/African American,
Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native) and/or 30 percent or more are low-income
students (students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch), a symbol has
been affixed to the district name to highlight this work.
The complete 5th Annual AP District Honor Roll can be
found here.
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