Gainesville High School and several schools in the Hall County School System have been named 2020 AP Honor Schools, according to the state Department of Education.
“I commend the students, teachers, and staff of these 255 schools,” said State School Superintendent Richard Woods. “Behind this recognition is an enormous amount of hard work, and I congratulate all those who worked to expand access, improve performance, and build strong Advanced Placement programs in each school recognized.”
The 2020 AP Honor Schools are named in eight categories, based on the results of 2019 AP courses and exams.
GAINESVILLE
Gainesville High School earned distinction in AP STEM, AP STEM Achievement, and AP Access and Support. Seventeen Advanced Placement (AP) courses including the AP Capstone Diploma are offered at GHS; providing rigorous college-level instruction with equity of access to all students. Last year, 267 GHS students completed 465 AP exams with over 70% earning a score of 3 or more. The school’s AP program has produced 42 AP Scholars, 15 AP Scholars with distinction, 11 Capstone Diploma recipients, 5 AP Capstone certificates, and 3 National AP Scholars since offering AP course options.
“We are thrilled to be recognized as an AP STEM Honor School, AP STEM Achievement Honor School and AP Access and Support Honor School. These honors are only possible because of the hard work of our faculty and our students and the support of our families,” said GHS Principal Jamie Green. “We continue to look for ways to increase enrollment in early post-secondary opportunities and ensure that these opportunities are open to our entire student body. We remain fully committed to our mission to inspire, nurture, challenge, and prepare all students.”
HALL COUNTY
Several of the county's high schools are AP Honor Schools in more than one category.
AP exams are administered by the College Board, which also administers the SAT. AP courses are one of several ways Georgia students can access college-level rigor at the high school level; students who receive a 3, 4, or 5 on an AP exam are eligible to receive college credit.
Hall County School District AP Honor Schools:
2020 AP ACCESS AND SUPPORT SCHOOLS:
Schools with at least 30% of 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
- Chestatee High School
- Johnson High School
- West Hall High School
2020 AP CHALLENGE SCHOOLS:
Schools with enrollments of 900 or fewer students and students testing in English, math, science, and social studies
- Cherokee Bluff High School
2020 AP SCHOOLS OF DISTINCTION:
Schools with at least 20% of the total student population taking AP exams and at least 50% of all AP exams earning scores of 3 or higher
- Chestatee High School
- Flowery Branch High School
2020 AP HUMANITIES SCHOOLS:
Schools with a minimum of five students testing in each of the following AP categories: one ELA course, two history/social science courses, one fine arts course and one world language course
- Chestatee High School
- Flowery Branch High School
AP Humanities schools (see above definition) with at least 50% of all AP Humanities exams earning scores of 3 or higher
- Chestatee High School
- Flowery Branch High School
2020 AP STEM SCHOOLS:
Schools with a minimum of five students testing in at least four AP STEM courses (AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles)
- Cherokee Bluff High School
- Chestatee High School
- Flowery Branch High School
- North Hall High School
2020 AP STEM ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOLS:
AP STEM schools (see above definition) with at least 50% of all AP STEM exams earning scores of 3 or higher
- North Hall High School
