Foxborough Named to AP District Honor Roll

FOXBOROUGH, MA — For the third year in a row the Foxborough Public School has been named one of the best districts when it comes to performance on AP exams.

Superintendent Debra Spinelli announced Thursday that Foxborough has been placed on the College Board's AP District Honor Roll. To be included, Foxborough High School had to 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, according to Spinelli Reaching these goals shows that this district is successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are ready for AP.

“It is quite an honor to be named to the College Board’s 7th Annual AP District Honor Roll for the third straight year. It reflects the hard work and dedication of our Foxborough High School faculty and administration, and their commitment to expanding opportunities for advanced learning for our students. This also speaks to the educational vision of Principal Diana Myers-Pachla, whose personal goal as an educational leader was to expand access to AP and create pathways for motivated students to challenge themselves,” Spinelli said in a statement.

“I’m so proud of all the hard work of our entire faculty and our students,” Myers-Pachla said.

The honor roll includes 433 school districts in the United States and Canada.

Inclusion on the 7th Annual AP District Honor Roll is based on a review of three years of AP data, from 2014 to 2016, looking across 37 AP Exams, including world language and culture. To be included, districts must increase 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; increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African-American, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native students; and improve or maintain performance levels when comparing the 2016 percentage of students scoring a 3 or higher to the 2014 percentage, unless the district has already attained a performance level at which more than 70 percent of its AP students earn a 3 or higher.

Information in this article was provided by the Foxborough Public Schools.

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