McEachern High School Named Among 2015 Georgia Advanced Placement Honor Schools

All 16 Cobb County high schools were named Georgia Advanced Placement (AP®) Honor Schools by the state Department of Education. The program recognizes Georgia schools that have increased access to rigorous AP coursework, based on the results of 2014 AP classes and exams.

The 2015 AP Honor Schools are named in five categories, based on the results of 2014 AP courses and exams.New this year is the AP Humanities category, in which schools have students tested in all of the following AP courses: at least one ELA course, two social science courses, one fine arts course and one world language course.

AP Humanities Schools are those with students who test in at least 1 ELA course, 2 social science courses, 1 fine arts course and 1 world language course. Cobb Schools qualifying in this new category are:

Allatoona, Campbell, Harrison, Kell, Kennesaw Mountain, Lassiter, McEachern, North Cobb, Pebblebrook, Pope, Sprayberry, Walton and Wheeler.

Two categories honor schools encouraging participation in AP Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) coursework.:

Allatoona, Campbell, Harrison, Hillgrove, Kell, Kennesaw Mountain, Lassiter, McEachern, North Cobb, Osborne, Pebblebrook, Pope, South Cobb, Sprayberry, 

Walton and Wheeler were named AP STEM Schools for having students testing in at least two AP math courses and two AP science courses (AP Calculus AB, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science).

Allatoona, Kell, Harrison, Hillgrove, Kell, Kennesaw Mountain, Lassiter, North Cobb, Pope, Sprayberry, Walton and Wheeler were also named to the AP STEM Achievement Schools list for also having at least 40 percent of the exam scores on AP math and AP science exams earning scores of three (3) or higher.

AP Merit Schools had at least 20 percent of the student population taking AP exams and at least half of all AP exams earning scores of three (3) or higher; Harrison, Hillgrove, Kennesaw Mountain, Lassiter, North Cobb, Pope, Sprayberry and Walton high schools met the criteria for the AP Merit category.

Campbell, North Cobb and McEachern were recognized as AP Access and Support Schools for having least 30 percent of their AP exams taken by students who identified themselves as African-American and/or Hispanic and 30 percent of all AP exams earning scores of 3 or higher.

In all, 609 Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Schools were named by State School Superintendent Richard Woods. The Georgia Department of Education began recognizing AP Honor Schools in 2008.

For more information about our Advanced Learning Programs, visit http://www.cobbk12.org/centraloffice/curriculum/AdvancedLearning.aspx.