BHS placed on the College Board’s annual AP Honor Roll

Boardman High School is one of 547 schools in the U.S. and Canada being honored by the College Board with placement on the fifth annual AP District Honor Roll for increasing access to AP course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP Exams.

Since 2012, Boardman has increased the number of students participating in AP while improving the number of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher.

The school is committed to expanding the availability of AP courses among prepared and motivated students of all backgrounds.

“The devoted teachers and administrators in this district are delivering an undeniable benefit to their students: opportunity. When coupled with a student’s hard work, such opportunities can have myriad outcomes, whether building confidence, learning to craft effective arguments, earning credit for college, or persisting to graduate from college on time.” said Trevor Packer, the College Board’s senior vice president of AP and Instruction.

“Boardman has worked hard over the past several years to expand the opportunity for more of our students to participate in Advanced Placement courses,” said Boardman’s AP Coordinator, Dave Kornbau, “We have done this by creating courses not only in the core courses like math and English but also by adding AP offerings in such electives as studio art and photography. Of course, adding the courses is only part of the process. Our students increased participation as expected with the additional courses but also have shown remarkable improvement in their test scores in all subjects. It is one thing to increase the number of students taking the courses and quite another to demonstrate improved performance. That is a tribute to both our teaching staff and to our students.”

This is the second consecutive year that Boardman has been placed on the AP Honor Roll.