Report Issue Brief

Indicator of the Month: Students Who Took Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations

NCES
Author(s):
John Wirt
Publication date:
October 1999
Survey areas:
Annual Reports - Annual Reports and Information Staff
Publication number:
NCES 2000001

Summary

This indicator of the month shows that since 1984 the number of students who took AP examinations has increased dramatically from 50 to 131 students per 1,000 12th graders. In 1997 more females than males took AP examinations.

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