INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana high schoolers increased their Advanced Placement scores to pre-pandemic norms in 2022, but many are still short of passing, according to preliminary data released by the College Board.
Advanced Placement (AP) classes allow students to take college-level coursework and earn college credits while in high school — as long as they pass the end-of-year exams with a score of three, four, or five. One is the lowest score a student can earn, while a five is the highest.
Overall, about 56% of Indiana 11th and 12th graders who took an AP exam earned a three or higher in 2022. The remainder of student test takers did not earn a high enough score on their exams to qualify for college credit, however.
But, Indiana is improving. In the past 10 years, the state has seen an overall uptick in the number of students who pass AP exams, growing from roughly 45% passing in 2012.
In 2019, the last time AP tests were proctored before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 52% of students earned a passing score.
Equity gaps still persist. Black students’ median score in 2022 was 2.0 — up from 1.9 in 2021 and 1.8 in 2012 — while White students’ median was 2.8, an increase from 2.6 in 2021. Asian students earned a median score of 3.3, up from 3.1 in 2021.
Nationally, the median score earned in 2022 was 2.9 across all student backgrounds. That is an increase from 2.7 the year before, and slightly higher than the national average of 2.8 before the pandemic.
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