Schools

Grading Area High School AP Scores

African-American, Hispanic students more likely to take APs than rest of MCPS.

Montgomery County Public Schools is celebrating the AP success of its 2010 graduates. Overall, the school system had 66 percent of graduating seniors participate in AP scores and 50 percent get a 3 or higher on at least one of the exams. That’s far beyond the national averages of 28.3 and 16.9 percent respectively. But how did , and do?

  • Overall, there’s not a huge variation in the percentage of students who took and were successful on the AP tests between the three.
  • More African-American and Hispanic graduates took an AP test than the MCPS average at all three schools.
  • However, of those who took APs, graduates at the three high schools were less likely to gain a three than the MCPS average.
  • Wheaton High School performed better than the MCPS average on ESOL graduates who got a score of 3 or higher. Over half of graduates who qualified for free or reduced lunch at Wheaton took at least one AP test, with 60 percent of those who took the test scoring a 3 or higher.
  • Here’s a selected table of the stats. The full report is available in the media section of the article.

 

School

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# of total graduates

# of graduates that took  at least one AP

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# of graduates who got a 3 or more

% of test-takers that got 3 or more

Kennedy

315

179 (56.8%)

100

55.9

Wheaton

289

174 (60.2%)

90

51.7

Northwood

262

155 (59.2%)

88

56.8

 

% of Af. American graduates that took at least one AP test

% of Hispanic “ "

% of Asian American " ”

% of White " "

Kennedy

47.3

52.7

67.9

83.8

Wheaton

62.3

54.2

74.4

66.7

Northwood

45.5

62.2

70.6

69.3

MCPS Average

44.2

52.3

80.3

77

 

% of African-American test-takers with 3 or higher 

% of Hispanic " "

% of Asian American " "

% of White " "

Kennedy

42.0

59.2

63.9

67.8

Wheaton

31.6

59.0

48.3

62.5

Northwood

32.5

62.7

58.3

69.2

MCPS Average

51.0

68.1

82.3

82.4


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