46 Pennsylvania Districts Make AP 'Honor Roll'

Hundreds of school districts, including 46 in Pennsylvania, have been named to the annual AP District Honor Roll. The annual Honor Roll recognizes schools that increase access and performance related to Advanced Placement programs.

More than 370 school districts across the country and in Canada were recognized on the 9th annual list.

To qualify, large school districts had to show there was at least 4 percent more participation and access to Advanced Placement programs. Medium districts had to see at least a 6 percent increase and small districts had to see at least 11 percent.

These schools increased access to Advanced Placement courses for minority students while also improving or maintaining the rate at which participating students scored a 3 or higher on an AP Exam. The Honor Roll recognition is based on three years of data from 2016 to 2018.

Here are the Pennsylvania districts that made the 9th annual AP honor roll:

1. Bellefonte Area School District
2. Bradford Area School District
3. Butler Area School District
4. Centennial School District
5. Daniel Boone Area School District
6. Dunmore School District
7. East Penn School District
8. East Pennsboro Area School District
9. Eastern Lancaster County School District
10. Eastern Lebanon County School District
11. Franklin Regional School District
12. Governor Mifflin School District
13. Greater Nanticoke Area School District
14. Greencastle-Antrim School District
15. Grove City Area School District
16. Haverford Township School District
17. Hazleton Area School District
18. Hempfield School District
19. Karns City Area School District
20. Keystone Oaks School District
21. Kutztown Area School District
22. Mars Area School District
23. Mifflin County School District
24. Palisades School District
25. Palmyra Area School District
26. Pennridge School District
27. Pennsbury School District
28. Penn-Trafford School District
29. Peters Township School District
30. Pocono Mountain School District
31. Red Lion Area School District
32. Saucon Valley School District
33. Shenango Area School District
34. Shikellamy School District
35. South Park School District
36. Southeastern Greene School District
37. Spring-Ford Area School District
38. State College Area School District
39. Unionville Chadds Ford School District
40. Warwick School District
41. West Jefferson Hills School District
42. Whitehall-Coplay School District
43. Wilmington Area School District
44. Wilson Area School District
45. Wyomissing Area School District
46. York Suburban School District

The organization noted the districts that saw at least 30 percent enrollment of American Indian, African-American and Hispanic/Latino students with an asterisk. Those where at least 30 percent of participants qualified for free or reduced lunch were noted with a dagger symbol. Districts that received a star achieved the honor over multiple years.

National data from this year showed that about half of underrepresented students with a “high degree of readiness for AP” participated in the program, the organization wrote on its website.

College Board sponsors the Advanced Placement program and the popular SAT test, which attempts to assess a students’ college-readiness.

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report

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