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Advanced Placement (AP) Detail Information

The Advanced Placement® (AP®) Detail dashboard provides information about Advanced Placement participation and performance by high school. It includes aggregate participation and performance data (across all exams), as well as subject specific exam participation and performance data.

Information Presented Includes:  

General Information 

  • High School: Name of the applicant’s high school. 

  • Senior Class Size: 3-year average of the senior class size of the applicant’s high school (Common Core of Data and Private School Survey, NCES). 

  • AP Opportunity: 

  • Seniors Taking AP: 3-year average of the percentage of the senior class who have taken at least one AP® Exam (aggregate College Board data) 

  • Average AP Exams Taken: 3-year average of the number of AP Exams taken by seniors from the high school who took at least one AP Exam (aggregate College Board data) 

  • Average AP Score: 3-year average of AP Exam scores across seniors from the high school who took AP Exams (aggregate College Board data) 

  • Unique Exams Administered: Number of unique AP Exams taken by seniors at the high school over the past three years (aggregate College Board data) 

  • AP Capstone School: AP Capstone™ is a diploma program from College Board based on two yearlong AP courses: AP Seminar and AP Research. 

AP Subject Specific Exam Data 

  • Distribution of scores: 3-year average of the percentage of the senior class who took the exam during their high school career and earned scores of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.  

  • Average AP score: 3-year average score earned by seniors who took the exam during the course of their high school career.  

  • N of students per cohort: 3-year average number of seniors who took the AP exam during their high school career.  

  • % of students per cohort: 3-year average percentage of seniors who took the exam during their high school career.  

Navigating the Dashboard 

  • Use the dropdown menu titled “View AP Performance by” to toggle between score distributions and score averages.  

  • Use the dropdown menu titled “View AP Participation by” to toggle between the average number and average percentage of seniors who took the exam during their high school career. 

  • Use the dropdown menu titled “Year Applicant Took the Exam” to view each applicant’s exam in the appropriate context. Because AP exams periodically undergo a standard setting process, each applicant’s scores should be compared to either a pre- or post-standard setting distribution. Selecting the year the applicant took the exam automatically subsets the data to reflect the appropriate context. Learn more about standard setting. 

  • Use the up and down arrows in the upper-left corner of the dashboard to sort AP exams by most and least frequently taken. Select the refresh button to return to the default alphabetical display.  

AP Detail Information Data Summary

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