AP - School Distribution?

[Anonymous]

The SAT report has an area in the report where it offers the student's school's average score. This helps calibrate the student's performance in the context of the student's school.

This is the first year my student has taken AP exams. I'm looking for similar school-level data for AP exams and I'm not finding it so far. Is there a report that indicates the distribution of school scores for each exam? It seems like AP exams are more closely tied to school performance so I'm puzzled that I'm not finding this information. I found the grid that summarizes distributions for all test-takers, but that isn't as useful.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

That information may be on the school profile that goes with transcript

[Anonymous]

Look for school profile on your high school website but not all of them make it available

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look for school profile on your high school website but not all of them make it available

This. But you can also ask the counselor for a copy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look for school profile on your high school website but not all of them make it available

OP here. Yes, our school doesn't share any information about testing on the school profile.

[Anonymous]

Why are people so mean to the OP? I am another OP who asked about AP test scores, so not the same person so I am not sure about the accusation of serial poster.

Not everyone has a source of knowledge if it's our first kid, or if we never hired a counselor. And frankly, it appears that even counselors are wrong. And googling sometimes yields different information.

[Anonymous]

Most schools don’t include this info for APs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people so mean to the OP? I am another OP who asked about AP test scores, so not the same person so I am not sure about the accusation of serial poster.

Not everyone has a source of knowledge if it's our first kid, or if we never hired a counselor. And frankly, it appears that even counselors are wrong. And googling sometimes yields different information.

?? I read the entire thread twice and I'm not sure who is being mean to OP? Anyway, my kids' non-DC public school's school profile includes stats on what percentage of kids who took AP test got above a 3, but they don't provide any additional breakdown of the scores. However, I have seen Blair's school profile, which provides granular data on how many kids got each score on each separate AP test. I'm sure the college board gives the schools lots of information that's not made public. But if your school profile does not say, then I don't see why it's helpful to know that information since no college is going to know either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people so mean to the OP? I am another OP who asked about AP test scores, so not the same person so I am not sure about the accusation of serial poster.

Not everyone has a source of knowledge if it's our first kid, or if we never hired a counselor. And frankly, it appears that even counselors are wrong. And googling sometimes yields different information.

I suspect the mean ones are the teenagers who are bored in the summer.
If you have questions, post them here. Ignore those mean kids.

[Anonymous]

This is the first year my student has taken AP exams. I'm looking for similar school-level data for AP exams and I'm not finding it so far. Is there a report that indicates the distribution of school scores for each exam?

Yes, but it isn't usually distributed to parents. Colleges can buy the report for a particular school from the College Board. At least that's how it was 25 years ago. Colleges usually do it only for schools they are unfamiliar with.

There used to be a counselor on one of the boards who would post the distribution of AP scores by subject matter nationally.

[Anonymous]

Your HS gets that information, because one of my kid’s teachers shared it for the AP Chem test.

[Anonymous]

It is on the school profile page for my child’s MCPS school, so not up yet for the current test but I still think it gives the right information to compare.

Here is Churchill’s for 2024: https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/wchsschoolcounseling/home/class-of-2025-information?authuser=0

[Anonymous]

Wow, the MCPS profiles have a lot of great info.

Here’s what Langley’s looks like. Almost nothing to help schools compare.

https://langleyhs.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/inline-files/Langley%20High%20School%20Profile%202023-24%20%283%29.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SAT report has an area in the report where it offers the student's school's average score. This helps calibrate the student's performance in the context of the student's school.

This is the first year my student has taken AP exams. I'm looking for similar school-level data for AP exams and I'm not finding it so far. Is there a report that indicates the distribution of school scores for each exam? It seems like AP exams are more closely tied to school performance so I'm puzzled that I'm not finding this information. I found the grid that summarizes distributions for all test-takers, but that isn't as useful.

Thanks.

Curious what the source of this is. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is on the school profile page for my child’s MCPS school, so not up yet for the current test but I still think it gives the right information to compare.

Here is Churchill’s for 2024: https://sites.google.com/mcpsmd.net/wchsschoolcounseling/home/class-of-2025-information?authuser=0

Not a single student at Churchill that year took AP Physics C? That’s surprising to me.