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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

MCPS Class of 2012 Outperformed Peers on AP Tests

More than half of the county school system's graduating seniors last year earned at least one college-ready AP score.

News about the county's high-performing high-school students just doesn't stop. According to a Montgomery County Public Schools' statement, 52.3 percent of the county's public school students graduating from high school in 2012 earned a college-ready score (a score of 3 or higher) on at least one Advanced Placement exam, "far outperforming their peers across the state and nation." That's an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2011. Nationally, only 19.5 percent of graduating seniors last year earned at least one college-ready AP score. Across the state, 29.6 percent of graduating seniors in 2012 earned at least one college-ready AP score. No state had a higher percentage of students earning at least one AP score of 3 or higher, the…

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Report: AP Exams, Scores Increase in MCPS

Montgomery County public school students took a record number of Advanced Placement exams in 2012, according to a MCPS report.

Montgomery County Public Schools students took a record number of Advanced Placement exams in 2012, according to a MCPS statement. The percentage of exams earning a score of 3 or higher—a "college-ready score"—also increased, the statement added.  MCPS students took 32,974 AP exams in 2012—1,240 more than in 2011. It was the most exams taken in any year in MCPS history. Seventy-five percent of the exams received a score of 3 or better—up 3 percentage points from 2011 and the highest percentage since 2006, the statement added. Statewide, the percentage of AP exams earning a score of 3 or higher in 2012 was 61.4 percent. Nationwide, that number was 57.3 percent, the statement added. "These results show that our efforts to provide students …

Jason

8:23 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012

I am Proud of Northwest High School.......They are really showing the Growth in Numbers!!!!!   more ›

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