Advanced and PreAdvanced Placement Programs

Advanced Placement (AP) is a program allows high school students to participate in a college level course and possibly earn college credit while still in high school. Students are given the opportunity to show mastery in college-level courses by taking the AP exam in May of each year.

The College Board is responsible for developing and maintaining college level courses and exams in various subjects. They also report official AP scores to the colleges of the student’s choice. Scores on the AP exam range from 1 (no recommendation) to 5 (extremely qualified). Each individual college determines the scores to be accepted for credit, but most consider a score of at least 3. Colleges may award three, and sometimes six, hours of credit per test depending on their policy.

PISD offers PreAvanced Placement (PreAP) classes in middle school and high school. These courses are designed to prepare students for college level AP classes that are typically taught in 11th and 12th grade. The amount of skills and content that must be covered in a PreAP course requires that students read and write extensively outside of class. 

PreAP and AP Policy and Procedures (link to PDF)

Students who complete AP courses are:

• Better prepared academically.
• More likely to specialize in more challenging majors.
• Likely to complete more college coursework in four years.
• Likely to perform significantly better in college than students who did not take AP courses.
• More likely to exercise leadership.
• More likely to graduate with a double major.
• Twice as likely to go into advanced study (Ph.D. Programs, medicine, and law).
• Have college admission advantages
-Willingham & Morris, 1986; University of Texas, 1988

General Program Information

• AdA Meetings Calendar
• AP Summer Institutes Registration and Participation Instructions
• Advanced Academics Data
• AP Courses Available in Pflugerville ISD 2004-05
• Descriptions of Pre-AP and AP Courses
• Pre-AP, AP and 504 Guidelines
• Prep Session poster
• Guidelines for Helping Students Select Middle School Pre-AP Courses
• Procedures for Continuation in or Transfer Out of Pre-AP Courses in Middle School
• Students Taking Pre-AP Courses in PISD Middle Schools
• Ethnic Breakdown of GT Students in Pflugerville ISD

Power Point Presentations

• Board HISTORY
• Why AP Slides 1
• Why AP Slides 2
• Why AP Slides 3
• AP Spanish Information Video
• APR Spanish Language in Middle School Project