District 202 Named to Advanced Placement District Honor Roll

PLAINFIELD, IL — The Plainfield School District has been named to the 7th annual Advanced Placement (AP) District Honor Roll.

The prestigious honor recognizes 433 school districts across the country and Canada that have both increased access to AP courses for a broader number of students and also maintained or improved the rate at which their AP students earned scores of 3 or higher on an AP exam.

The Advanced Placement (AP) Program allows motivated and academically prepared high school students to take challenging, college-level courses and get college credit, advanced placement or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.

“We are very proud to receive this honor, because it recognizes the work District 202 has done over the last 10 years to both increase the rigor of our curriculum, and to open the doors to more challenging courses to all students,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lane Abrell.

District 202 offers 25 AP courses this year, up from only four in 2006. As well, a record-high 302 District 202 high school graduates and current students have been named 2016 AP Scholars based on their performance on the AP exams given during the 2015-2016 school year.

Coincidentally, District 202 has also hosted AP Institute training for teachers from the United States and foreign countries for the last nine years.

Inclusion on the 7th annual AP District Honor Roll is based on the examination of three years of AP data, from 2014 to 2016, for:

• Increased 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.
• Increased or maintained the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students who scored 3+ on at least one AP Exam.
• Improved performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2016 scoring a 3 or higher to those in 2014, 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.