Hart County HS Makes 2022 List of Advanced Placement Honor Schools

Hart County High School is one of 88 schools in the state being named to the list of Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Schools for 2022.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods recently named 88 Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Schools for 2022.

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 learning at the high school level; students who receive a 3, 4, or 5 on an AP exam may receive college credit. GaDOE began recognizing AP Honor Schools in 2008.

The 2022 AP Honor Schools are named in eight categories, based on the results of 2021 AP courses and exams.

In addition to Hart County High School, in our area, Banks County High School was also named in the AP Expansion category.

Those are schools with 25% growth in AP student participation from May 2020 to May 2021 and a minimum of 25 students testing in May 2020.

Commerce High School and Elbert County Comprehensive High School were named in the AP Access and Support School category. Those are 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.

Those two schools along with Rabun County High School were also named in the AP Challenge Schools category, which are schools with enrollments of 900 or fewer students and students testing in English, math, science, and social studies.

Madison County was listed as an AP Achievement School which is an AP STEM school with at least 50% of all AP STEM exams earning scores of 3 or higher.

An AP STEM school is a school with a minimum of five students testing in at least four AP STEM courses.

Meantime, like the class of 2020, Georgia’s public-school class of 2021 had the 17th-highest Advanced Placement (AP) pass rate in the nation, according to data released by the College Board.

The percentage of students earning a 3 or higher on an AP exam was 21 percent, slightly below the national average of 22.5 percent.

In making the announcement Woods said his office is committed to expanding opportunities for Georgia students, including in advanced and accelerated coursework.

Wood also thanked each teacher, student, and school leader who worked hard to create strong AP opportunities in the 88 Georgia schools.