Vestavia Hills City Schools is one of 477 school districts in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the fourth annual AP District Honor Roll. Reaching these goals indicates that the district is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are likely to benefit from rigorous AP course work. Since 2011, Vestavia Hills City Schools has increased the number of students participating in AP while improving the number of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher.
To qualify, districts must:
Increase 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.
Increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native students.
Improve 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.
-Submitted by Jane-Marie Marlin
