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Educators across the United States continue to enable a wider and more ethnically diverse proportion of students to achieve success in AP®. Significant inequities remain, however, which can result in traditionally underserved students not receiving the type of AP opportunities that can best prepare them for college success. The 6th Annual AP Report to the Nation uses a combination of state, national and AP Program data to provide each U.S. state with the context it can use to celebrate its successes, understand its unique challenges, and set meaningful, data-driven goals to prepare more students for success in college. Read more...
A Word About the Data
While AP Exams are valid measures of students’ content mastery of college-level studies in specific academic disciplines, they should never be used as sole measures for gauging educational excellence and equity.
Because the chief purpose of the report is to provide state departments of education with data to gauge their successes and to identify current challenges in providing equitable educational opportunities (and because current, reliable racial/ethnic demographic data for nonpublic schools are not available for all states), the data in this report represent public schools only.
Learn More About AP®
AP is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion and hard work of students and educators from both secondary schools and higher education. With more than 30 courses in a wide variety of subject areas, AP provides willing and academically prepared students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level.
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- Across the nation, educators and policymakers are helping a wider segment of the U.S. student population experience success in AP.
- Increasing numbers of African American, Latino and American Indian students are participating in AP, but these students remain underserved.
- An equity and excellence gap appears when traditionally underserved students comprise a smaller percentage of the successful student group than the percentage these students represent in the graduating class.
- More low-income students are participating and experiencing success in AP than ever before.
