School District Five schools named on 2024 Advanced Placement School Honor Roll

Three Lexington-Richland School District Five high schools have been named to College Board’s 2024 Advanced Placement (AP) Program School Honor Roll. The AP® School Honor Roll recognizes schools whose AP programs are delivering wide-reaching results for their students.

The AP School Honor Roll offers schools recognition across four levels of distinction: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Schools on the AP School Honor Roll may also earn the AP Access Award, honoring schools that demonstrate a clear and effective commitment to equitable access to advanced coursework.

Chapin High School and Dutch Fork High School are Silver members of the Honor Roll while Spring Hill High School is Silver with AP Access.

For a school to be recognized on the AP School Honor Roll in a given year, it must meet each of the following criteria for their students in the most recent graduating class. These criteria are anchored in research-based relationships between AP and college outcomes:

• College Culture: 40% or more of the graduating cohort took at least 1 AP Exam during high school.
• College Credit: 25% or more of the graduating cohort scored a 3 or higher on at least 1 AP Exam during high school.
• College Optimization: 2% or more of the graduating cohort took 5 or more AP Exams during high school. At least 1 of those exams was taken in 9th or 10th grade, so that students are spreading their AP experience across grades rather than feeling disproportionate pressure in any single year.

Schools can earn the additional AP Access Award if the percentage of AP Exam takers who are underrepresented minority and/or low-income students mirrors the school’s overall student demographics.

“AP gives students opportunity to engage with college-level work to earn college credit and placement, and to potentially boost their grade point averages,” said Trevor Packer, Senior Vice President AP & Instruction. “The schools that have earned this distinction are proof that it is possible to expand access to these college-level courses and still drive strong performance-they represent the best of AP.”