CCSD Makes AP Honor Roll for 4th Consecutive Year Cherokee County School District high school students not only continue to beat state and national averages on college-level Advance Placement (AP) exams, but CCSD also has earned national recognition for its AP achievement for the fourth consecutive year! CCSD is one of only ten school districts in Georgia named to the College Boards elite AP Honor Roll for 2016, and this was CCSDs fourth consecutive year to earn the prestigious distinction. With a passage rate of 70% among the 4,784 tests administered in the spring of 2016, CCSD exceeds the state average of 58% and the national average of 57%. The AP program has grown significantly in CCSD, with AP courses and exams currently offered in 30 subjects, up from 26 last year. The number of exams taken by CCSD students increased by 16% from 2015 and has risen by more than 80% in the last five years. High school students who score a 3, 4 or 5 on an AP exam earn college credit, and subsequently, they get to exempt those courses in college. Passage of AP exams places students at an academic and financial advantage, studies show, as they can both begin classes in their major sooner and avoid tuition costs for exempted courses.
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