Tuesday, March 4, 2025–8:55 a.m.
-David Crowder, WRGA News-
Rome High School and all four Floyd County High Schools are among 301 Advanced Placement Honor Schools from 104 school districts for 2025.
The 2025 AP Honor Schools are named in eight categories based on the results of 2024 AP courses and exams.
AP Access and Support Schools have at least 30% of AP exams taken by students who identified as African American and/or Hispanic (minimum of 16 students) and 30% of all AP exams earning scores of 3 or higher. At least 25 exams must be administered.
Coosa High was honored in this category.
Armuchee High was named an AP Challenge School, with enrollments of 900 or fewer students and exams administered in English, math, science, and social studies, with a minimum of 25 total exams.
Armuchee was also honored in the AP Expansion School category, which includes AP schools with 25% growth in AP student participation from May 2022 to May 2023 and a minimum of 25 students testing in May 2022.
Rome High was recognized in the AP Humanities School category and AP Humanities Achievement School categories. AP Humanities Schools are schools with at least five exams administered in each of the following AP categories: one ELA course, two social studies courses, one fine arts course, and one world language course, and a minimum of 25 total exams administered. Meanwhile, AP Humanities Achievement Schools are AP Humanities schools with at least 50% of all AP Humanities exams earning scores of 3 or higher.
Rome, Armuchee, Model, and Pepprell High were all named as AP STEM Schools and AP STEM Achievement Schools. An AP STEM Schools is a school with a minimum of five students testing in at least four AP STEM courses, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles, and a minimum of 25 exams administered. An AP STEM Achievement School is an AP STEM School with at least 50% of all AP STEM exams earning scores of 3 or higher.
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. The Georgia Department of Education began recognizing AP Honor Schools in 2008.