According to a report released by the College Board, while more minority high school students are successfully taking Advanced Placement exams, the minorities are still underrepresented in the population of students who take AP exams.
The report states that the number of African-American students taking an AP exam in 2010 has more than tripled from the number taking it in 2001; similarly, the number of Hispanic students has almost tripled during the same period. Although 14.6 percent of the more than 853,000 public high school seniors last year were African-American, less than 4 percent of the students who earned a score of 3 or better on at least one exam were African-American. In states such as Texas and Florida, where funding is provided to train teachers to teach AP courses, minority students have higher participation in AP classes and demonstrate more success on the exams.
Twenty-eight percent of high school students graduating in 2010 took at least one AP exam, and 60 percent of those who took a test earned at least a 3, the score that is often required for college credit. Maryland had the greatest proportion of seniors scoring higher than 3 on an exam with 26 percent.
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