The College Board is announcing the 4th Annual AP District Honor Roll - a list of 477 districts across the U.S. and Canada being honored 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. Reaching these goals indicates that these districts are successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are likely to benefit from rigorous AP course work.

We recognize that improvement in AP results typically takes sustained effort; therefore the AP District Award is based on examination of three years of AP data: 2011, 2012, and 2013 data from all students who took AP Examinations in May of those years. Within the three-year analysis, inclusion on the honor roll list is based on the following criteria:

• Increase participation/access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, at least 6 percent in medium districts, and at least 11 percent in small districts
• Increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students
• Improve performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2013 scoring a 3 or higher to those in 2011, unless the district has already attained a performance level at which more than 70 percent of its AP students are scoring a 3 or higher

For more information about the AP Honor Roll please click here.