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MCPS: AP Success Expands for Rockville's High Schools
Larger proportion of graduates took at least one AP exam, earned college-ready scores.
Graduates from three of the city’s high schools exceeded countywide averages in the percentage of students who took at least one advanced placement exam. Montgomery County Public schools released the data on Wednesday.
More than two-thirds of the county school system's graduating seniors (67.3 percent) took at least one AP test in 2012. More than half (52.3 percent) earned at least a 3, what is considered a college-ready score, Patch has reported.
Thomas S. Wootton High School was one of the county’s top-performing schools, with 81.5 percent of its graduates earning scores of at least 3. About 89.5 percent of Wootton graduates took at least one AP exam.
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The percentages for taking an AP exam were 74 percent at Richard Montgomery High School and 72.7 percent at Rockville High School.
At Magruder High School, 59.8 percent of graduates took at least one AP exam and less than half earned a college-ready score, according to MCPS figures.
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But at Magruder and at Rockville, there were increases in exam participation among African American and Hispanic students, groups that have broadly been less likely to take the test, according to the school system's data.
Here are the basic numbers (the full report is attached with this story):
Percentage of graduates who took at least one AP test
Number of graduates
(by year)
Number of graduates who took one or more AP tests
(by year)
% taking at least one AP test
(by year)
2011
2012
2011
2012
2011
2012
Magruder
409
443
245
265
59.9
59.8
Richard Montgomery
471
497
338
368
71.8
74.0
Rockville
283
278
190
202
67.1
72.7
Wootton
599
583
529
522
88.3
89.5
MCPS
10,158
10,322
6,710
6,951
66.1
67.3
Percentage of graduates scoring 3 or higher
2011
2012
Magruder
48.4
48.3
Richard Montgomery
62.4
64.0
Rockville
39.2
46.8
Wootton
73.3
81.5
MCPS
49.6
52.3
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