<p>8 AP (and realistically can do about 3 max., given the other requirements/constraints). Overall of exams taken, between 75-78% get either 4 or 5 each year. </p>
<p>Around 2100 (haven’t seen any scores below 1800 on naviance).</p>
<p>Let me tell you, we live in an <em>extremely</em> frugal district - it’s a struggle to get every single school budget passed. And we have really moderate budgets. </p>
<p>However, our district also likes to be known as high-achieving. We have one of those US News & World Report “silver medals” and it’s a point of pride for many in our district. So, we may be cutting some things, but AP courses will never be one of those things.</p>
<p>3-5 depending on enrollment</p>
<p>about 430 on each section</p>
<p>Momofthreeboys: I’d be a little surprised if your school district gets less revenue per pupil than ours. for 2009-10, we received $7004 per pupil.
We have 14 AP and 21 IB courses, and around 1900 pupils in the high school.</p>
<p>I don’t think you need to spend a fortune to have a good variety of AP/IB courses. (IB is more expensive to offer than AP, though)</p>
<p>15 AP classes with average ACT score of 26 (99%).</p>
<p>Son’s HS offers 10 AP courses for 9th and 10th grades then exclusively college courses (from private LAC) for 11th and 12th grades (early college high school). </p>
<p>Mean SAT scores: 686 Critical Reading, 679 Math, and 667 Writing</p>
<p>We’re in the bottom quarter of spending for our county - we can offer so many AP Courses because we are a very large high school. Often only one section of the AP course will be offered, and often AP sections will be larger than the average class size.</p>
<p>(We also offer some college level classes that are certified by Syracuse, not the AP folks.)</p>
<p>“… we live in an <em>extremely</em> frugal district - it’s a struggle to get every single school budget passed. And we have really moderate budgets.
However, our district also likes to be known as high-achieving. We have one of those US News & World Report “silver medals” and it’s a point of pride for many in our district. So, we may be cutting some things, but AP courses will never be one of those things.”</p>
<p>I LIKE THIS ONE VERY VERY MUCH!!!</p>
<p>Our high school offers 20 AP courses for 2500 students. Embarassingly, our ACT average is only 22, but we have many immigrant families and a fair number of low-income households. Because of the diversity, the range of classes is extensive. The pay scale is $30,000 above the state average for both teachers and administrators! It certainly does attract a better class of instructor - my kids have had several teachers who would have made excellent college professors.</p>
<p>My high school offered somewhere in the range of about 15, and the average ACT was a 25.1. However, the state forces everyone to take the ACT. I think if that wasn’t the case, it’d be more like a 26-27. </p>
<p>A lot of kids here take classes at the local community colleges or one of the two large local universities, so that 15 AP classes probably doesn’t reflect well either.</p>
<p>My school had a large number of kids who’s parents were researchers or professors, a large number of expats, and is a fairly wealthy area.</p>
<p>Our HS offers 16 AP courses, a few of which just appeared this year. </p>
<p>Avg SAT scores CR 532 M 555 W530</p>
<p>How much does it cost to offer AP classes? We’re paying the teachers the same, once they are trained or certified or whatever it is they do, they don’t pay for the tests.</p>
<p>Our school has over 20AP classes, but you’d have to go through the catalogue for the exact number. SAT’s were 1210 in 2005, the last year they list and Bob says they’ve gone up. </p>
<p>BTW, our school has students from something like 76 countries. That’s countries. I would guess at least a couple of dozen languages. We have about 10% black kids - many from Boston through a program called METCO - and 14% asian (of a wide variety), and about 7.5% hispanic (also many from Boston). 12+% low income, 2+% limited English proficiency (new to the country), a full 25% English not the first language, and about 18% special needs. If anyone wants an example of a diverse high school that is highly successful, our school is it. </p>
<p>In our elementary schools, my kids had friends from South Africa, Nepal, Russia (lots), China, Japan, Argentina, Botswana (really German), Norway, etc., etc.</p>
<p>And btw, my conclusion about the success is that it’s all about aspiration: people come to our school and often into our town because they want their kids to be successful in life and that puts pressure on the families and the kids to do that.</p>
<p>private school. This is last year’s data. I assume close to 100% take the SAT as all grads have college acceptances.</p>
<p>mid 50%
SAT
verbal 550-680
math 530-640
writing 530-660</p>
<p>ACT (middle 50% here is much wider because fewer take it)
composite 23-30
english 23-32
math 23-33
science 22-28</p>
<p>Last year 12 APs subj tests taken, two were in subjects not offered at the school (Bio,Psych). Two subj were dropped by the college board (Latin Lit, no one took the French Lit test last year although the class is offered) This year the school added three new AP courses (one with two tests phys C) I’d predict 13 different tests if you count both phys with possibly other self studies.</p>
<p>“How much does it cost to offer AP classes? We’re paying the teachers the same, once they are trained or certified or whatever it is they do, they don’t pay for the tests.”</p>
<p>It doesn’t cost much to offer these courses. AP Central recommends that teachers attend a training session. These are usually a week in length during the summer and cost around $1,000 to $1,500 if I recall correctly. My wife attended a session a couple of years back before she started teaching APUSH in a neighboring school district. The school district paid for the registration fee (which included meals and lodging) but the time was on her own.</p>
<p>There is no absolute requirement that teachers be trained, however. The only requirement is that schools offering AP courses must approve the syllabus and the instructors must have an appropriate graduate degree. The Masters requirement might be an additional cost in some states but in NYS you must earn your Masters within 5 years of receiving provisional teaching certification so that doesn’t really come into play here.</p>
<p>From what I understand a lot of the smaller public schools in our area that offer few APs do so because of objections from teachers, not because it costs much more. In subjects such as US History, English and European History – all writing intensive – teachers must grade far more essays than in Regents level or honors courses. Some teachers welcome the opportunity, others don’t want the extra uncompensated work. Some math and science teachers in our local schools prefer the curriculum offered through the local community college and have lobbied to keep additional APs out of the school (That’s a whole other subject!). The point is, it really doesn’t have to cost a whole lot more for a high school to offer AP courses if they want to and if there are a sufficient number of students who want to take the courses.</p>
<p>M - 622
cr - 567
w - 589</p>
<p>27 ap</p>
<p>Our high school participates in the state run Virtual Virginia program so technically we have access to 24 AP courses and multiple other course not offered regularly such as Arabic, Chinese and World Mythology plus a host of others that smaller divisions may not offer such as Latin. In terms of live instruction I believe there are a total of 10 courses. Mean scores on the SAT: M: 527, CR: 519, W: 497; for students who also took SATII tests: M: 641, CR: 630, W: 600.</p>
<p>D’s (old)school</p>
<p>25 AP classes
15 IB classes</p>
<p>Average math/verbal 1067
Average ACT 23.30</p>
<p>Oh sure, we have virtual classrooms available for kids that want something not offered, we have a state university, two community colleges and a good art college less than a gallon of gas away. AP isn’t the end all be all. My kids take a few in the areas of interest or when they have exhausted the available curriculum. We do fine for a district with less than 1,000 high school kids. I’m not poo-pooing them, our district just doesn’t offer that many of them.</p>
<p>23 AP’s offered</p>
<p>CR-485
M-496
W474</p>
<p>avg SAT score 1455/2400</p>
<p>Somewhere around 14 APs. Maybe more if there are art-related ones I don’t know of. </p>
<p>CR 560
M 590
W 560</p>