School District Five schools named on 2024 Advanced Placement School Honor Roll

For Immediate Release – January 21, 2026

School District Five schools named on 2024 Advanced Placement School Honor Roll

IRMO – Three Lexington-Richland School District Five high schools have been named to College Board’s 2024 Advanced Placement (AP) Program School Honor Roll. The AP® School Honor Roll recognizes schools whose AP programs are delivering wide-reaching results for their students.

The AP School Honor Roll offers schools recognition across four levels of distinction: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Schools on the AP School Honor Roll may also earn the AP Access Award, honoring schools that demonstrate a clear and effective commitment to equitable access to advanced coursework. 

Spring Hill High School received Silver recognition, while Chapin High School and Dutch Fork High School are Bronze members of the Honor Roll.

“Being named to the AP Honor Roll is a powerful affirmation of the exceptional teaching and learning taking place across our schools,” Chief of Academics Tina McCaskill said. “This recognition reflects our educators’ unwavering commitment to academic rigor and our students’ determination to challenge themselves through advanced coursework. We are incredibly proud of this achievement and what it represents for our school community.”

For a school to be recognized on the AP School Honor Roll in a given year, it must meet each of the following criteria for their students in the most recent graduating class. These criteria are anchored in research-based relationships between AP and college outcomes: 40% or more of the graduating class took at least one AP exam during high school, 25% or more of the graduating class scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP exam during high school, and 2% or more of the graduating class took five or more AP exams during high school with at least one exam taken in ninth or tenth grade.

Schools can earn the additional AP Access Award if the percentage of AP Exam takers who are underrepresented minority and/or low-income students mirrors the school’s overall student demographics.

“AP gives students opportunity to engage with college-level work to earn college credit and placement, and to potentially boost their grade point averages,” said Trevor Packer, Senior Vice President AP & Instruction. “The schools that have earned this distinction are proof that it is possible to expand access to these college-level courses and still drive strong performance-they represent the best of AP.”

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