Hoover Schools Placed On AP District Honor Roll

HOOVER, AL - Hoover City Schools joins an elite company of school systems in North America, as it was honored by the College Board with placement on the 9th Annual AP District Honor Roll. To be included, Hoover City Schools had to, since 2016, increase the number of students participating in AP while also increasing or maintaining the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher.

Hoover is one of only 373 school districts in the U.S. and Canada receiving the honor. National data from 2018 show that among American Indian/Alaska Native, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students with a high degree of readiness for AP, only about half are participating. "The first step to getting more of these students to participate is to give them access," a statement from the AP College Board said. "Courses must be made available, gatekeeping must stop, and doors must be equitably opened. Hoover City Schools is committed to expanding the availability of AP courses among prepared and motivated students of all backgrounds."

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In 2018, more than 4,000 colleges and universities around the world received AP scores for college credit, advanced placement, or both, and/or consideration in the admissions process. Inclusion in the AP District Honor Roll is based on a review of three years of AP data, from 2016 to 2018, looking across 38 AP Exams, including world language and culture. The following criteria were used:

• Increase participation/access to AP by at least 4% in large districts, at least 6% in medium districts, and at least 11% in small districts;
• Increased or maintained the percentage of American Indian/Alaska Native, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students taking exams and increased or maintained the percentage of American Indian/Alaska Native, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students scoring 3+ on at least one AP Exam; and
• Improve or maintain performance levels when comparing the 2018 percentage of students scoring a 3 or higher to the 2016 percentage, unless the district has already attained a performance level at which more than 70% of its AP students earn a 3 or higher.

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