[StonyPointEagle] College-level courses in Albemarle County

[Price, Ronnie (Ron)]

Very good information! 

Ronnie J. Price, Sr. 

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I just listened to a podcast of last weekend's candidate forum for the
City of Charlottesville's first-ever school board elections.  In the
discussions, a candidate in the City provided some information on
college-level coursework in their division. See: 
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/?p=236

The candidate stated the following about Charlottesville City schools: 

"We have more AP courses than any school in the area, public or private.
In 1989, we had 13 AP courses with 55 students.  And 75% of those
received a 3 or higher [grade on AP exam].  In 2005, we have 20 AP
subjects and 142 students taking, so that's about 3 times as many
students [Note: that is about 3% of students enrolled in City].  And our
pass rate for college credit is 88%, compared to the state's of 61%. We
now have five dual-enrollment courses with Piedmont [Virginia Community
College]."

Many good facts about Charlottesville City Schools can be found on their
website http://www.ccs.k12.va.us/CCS_facts.html.  

In this case, I called the candidate today and we had a good
conversation about how Albemarle's numbers had improved in recent years
with respect to college-level courses.  Thus, with this posting I want
to share the latest information on Albemarle County Public Schools so
that the public is aware of our current offerings and performance
measurements.

*	Albemarle County has 22 AP courses offered at our high schools
for 2006-07 (actual offerings will depend on enrollment next year) 
*	Albemarle County has 13 dual-enrollment courses with PVCC for
2006-07 (actual offerings will depend on enrollment next year) 
*	During 2004-05, Albemarle County had 1,539 students
participating in AP courses (about 12.5% of our population) and 71% of
the students taking an AP exam received a grade of 3 or higher, the
level for which most students can receive college credit (this down from
84% in 1999-2000, but back then we had only 788 students taking AP
courses, or about 6.5% of our population).  

The Albemarle County School Board received a report on this data at our
February 9, 2006 meeting and the item can be found on our website here: 
http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/docmgr/default
.php?sectiondetailid=14831&fileitem=5153&catfilter=456

Nothing against my colleagues in the City, I just want everyone to know
how much progress Albemarle County has made in recent years in the area
of challenging our students with college-level coursework. 

Brian Wheeler

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