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Gwinnett Teachers, Students Honored for AP Performance
19 GCPS high schools are among the 462 schools from around the state named AP Honor Schools.
Press release from Gwinnett County Public Schools
The progress that Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) students have made on their Advanced Placement (AP) courses resulted in all of the district’s traditional high schools and its charter school to be honored by the Georgia Department of Education. State Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Barge announced this week that 19 GCPS high schools are among the 462 schools from around the state named AP Honor Schools.
“We’re proud that Gwinnett schools continue to earn state recognition,” says Dr. Kevin Tashlein, Gwinnett’s associate superintendent for School Improvement and Operations. “This type of recognition speaks to the exceptional job our teachers do in challenging students with rigorous material and preparing them for college-level work and a successful future.”
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During the 2012-2013 school year, 12,944 GCPS students participated
in 24,568 AP exams. That’s an increase from the previous year when 12,205 Gwinnett high school students took 23,468 AP exams.
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The Georgia DOE honors schools in five different categories and several GCPS schools were recognized in more than one category. Berkmar
High; Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology; and Norcross High made the list in four of the five categories. The 19 GCPS schools recognized as 2014 AP Honor Schools and the categories in which they were honored are:
AP Access and Support Schools
Eight Gwinnett schools with at least 30% of their AP exams taken by students who identified themselves as African-American and/or Hispanic and 30% of all AP exams earning scores of 3 or higher.
- Archer High
- Berkmar High
- Central Gwinnett High
- Dacula High
- Grayson High
- Lanier High
- Norcross High
- Shiloh High
AP Challenge Schools
One Gwinnett school of 900 or fewer students with students testing in four
of the core areas (English, mathematics, science, and social studies)
- Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, & Technology.
AP Merit Schools
11 Gwinnett schools with at least 20% of the student population taking AP exams and at least 50% of all AP exams earning scores of three (3) or higher.
- Berkmar High
- Brookwood High
- Collins Hill High
- Duluth High
- Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
- Mill Creek High
- Mountain View High
- Norcross High
- North Gwinnett High
- Parkview High
- Peachtree Ridge High
AP STEM Schools
19 Gwinnett schools with students testing in at least two (2) AP mathematics courses and two (2) AP science courses (AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science)
- Archer High
- Berkmar High
- Brookwood High
- Central Gwinnett High
- Collins Hill High
- Dacula High
- Duluth High
- Grayson High
- Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
- Lanier High
- Meadowcreek High
- Mill Creek High
- Mountain View High
- Norcross High
- North Gwinnett High
- Parkview High
- Peachtree Ridge High
- Shiloh High
- South Gwinnett High
AP STEM Achievement Schools
14 Gwinnett schools with students testing in at least 2 AP math courses and 2 AP science courses and at least 40% of the exam scores on AP math and AP science exams earning scores of three (3) or higher
- Archer High
- Berkmar High
- Brookwood High
- Collins Hill High
- Duluth High
- Grayson High
- Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
- Lanier High
- Mill Creek High
- Mountain View High
- Norcross High
- North Gwinnett High
- Parkview High
- Peachtree Ridge High
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