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Pennsbury Named to AP District Honor Roll
The honor roll is a list of 477 districts in the United States and Canada being honored for increasing access to AP course work.
Eight Bucks/Montco school districts have been named to the fourth-annual AP District Honor Roll, according to The College Board's website.
The honor roll is a list of 477 districts in the United States and Canada being honored for increasing access to AP course work while maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP Exams, the website says.
The following districts are on the list. The asterisk means a district has been on the list before:
- Central Bucks*
- Council Rock
- Lower Merion
- Lower Moreland*
- North Penn*
- Pennsbury
- Perkiomen Valley*
- Spring-Ford*
- Increased 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.
- Increased or maintained the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.
- Improved performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2013 scoring a 3 or higher to those in 2011, 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.
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