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February 13,
2008
Jay Dillon
(770) 426-3345 |
Six Cobb Schools Honored
by State For Advanced Placement Success
Six Cobb County high schools were named 2008
Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Schools today by Georgia
Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox. The AP Honor Schools
program recognizes schools that have committed to providing
challenging Advanced Placement courses to as many students
as possible. Advanced Placement courses provide rigorous,
college-level learning options to high school students.
Students who score a 3, 4 or 5 on AP exams can receive
college course credit.
The state has designated three achievement
designations for the AP Honor Schools Program. AP Challenge
Schools are schools with 900 or fewer students that offer at
least one AP course in each of the four traditional core
areas – English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.
Campbell, North Cobb and Pebblebrook high
schools earned recognition in the program’s second category,
AP Access and Support Schools. This designation is for
schools with at least 30 percent of AP test takers
identified as African-American or Hispanic and 30 percent of
AP exams receiving scores of three (3) or higher.
At the highest level of honor, AP Merit
Schools have at least 20 percent of students taking AP exams
and at least half of AP exams receiving a score of three (3)
or higher. Lassiter, Harrison and Walton high schools earned
the AP Merit School designation for 2008.
These honors come just weeks after the Cobb
County School District announced this year’s Advanced
Placement Certified Schools, a District program that honors
similar strides in providing Advanced Placement courses.
Each of Cobb’s 15 high schools met the criteria for
inclusion in the District’s APCS program, as well as 16
middle schools honored as APCS Middle School Affiliates. The
APCS program began in Cobb in 2004 as a means of making
honors and AP classes accessible to more students and to
support high achievement.
For more information about the 2008 AP Honor
Schools and the District’s own AP Certified Schools program,
visit the District Web site at
www.cobbk12.org.
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