Honors Diploma Eligible Courses

Advanced Placement (AP), Honors, and advanced-level courses provide rigorous and challenging studies for students who are capable or motivated to pursue rigorous and challenging instruction.

Honors Classes

The curriculum in each Honors course includes appropriate adaptations for accelerated and enriched learning for pursuing in-depth studies that require abstract and higher-order thinking skills. Honors courses provide expectations and opportunities for students to work independently at an accelerated pace, to engage in more rigorous and complex content and processes, and to develop authentic products that reflect students’ understanding of key concepts. Honor courses are available in the following areas:

AP Classes

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are those for which a College Board Advanced Placement examination exists. A qualifying score on an AP exam may give the student college credit or advanced standing in the subject in many colleges. These courses include concepts and skills that help prepare students for the AP exams.

A student enrolled in an Advanced Placement (AP) course is eligible for the AP designation on their academic transcript and for weighting of their grade point average for that course (example: A = 5 points, B = 4 points, C = 3 points, D and F are not eligible for weighting). A weighted grade point average can influence a student’s ability to achieve the salutatorian level of Academic Honors. AP Exams have a per exam fee associated with them. For current fee information please visit www.collegeboard.org.

AP courses are available in the following areas: