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More Clark County School District students are passing the Advanced Placement exams showing that they tin grip college-level coursework, and perchance gain assemblage recognition portion inactive successful precocious school.
The territory announced Friday that the 20,120 students who earned qualifying Advanced Placement, oregon AP, trial scores past twelvemonth correspond a 9.6% summation implicit the anterior year. Additionally, 3% much CCSD students took AP courses past year, with 62% of test-takers passing their last exams.
Typically, an AP people of 3 retired of 5 is capable for an American nationalist assemblage to assistance credit, a higher people placement, oregon both, according to the College Board, the nationwide not-for-profit enactment that administers the AP program.
More CCSD students are besides earning other College Board designation for their AP trial performance.
CCSD said 10% much students – oregon 2,207 pupils – were named AP Scholars for earning scores of 3 oregon higher connected 3 oregon much exams.
Also, 15% much students – oregon 839 pupils – were named AP Scholars with Honor for averaging a people of astatine slightest 3.25 connected each AP exams taken, and scores of 3 oregon higher connected 4 oregon much of these exams.
And 25% much CCSD students – oregon 1,537 pupils – earned the highest designation of AP Scholar with Distinction. This is for students who person an mean people of astatine slightest 3.5 connected each AP exams taken, and scores of 3 oregon higher connected 5 oregon much of these exams.
“These are breathtaking results, arsenic they amusement CCSD students are thriving erstwhile fixed the accidental to situation themselves with rigorous coursework,” CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert said successful a statement.
The College Board offers AP courses successful 40 subjects successful the arts, past and societal studies, English language, lit and composition, math, the physical, biologic and machine sciences, satellite languages and cultures, and probe and seminar.
Five-star schools celebrated
CCSD added 79 schools to its Superintendent’s Honor Roll for notable world accomplishment past schoolhouse year.
Thirty-two schools made the grant rotation for earning the state’s highest-possible 5-star ranking connected the Nevada School Performance Framework based connected world accomplishment successful the 2025-26 year. Additionally, 51 schools made the grant rotation for improving their scale scores by 10 oregon much points. (Four schools – Blue Diamond Elementary, Goolsby Elementary, Glen C. Taylor Elementary and Green Valley High – some earned 5 stars and improved their scale scores by astatine slightest 10 points.) Index scores instrumentality into relationship pupil proficiency and maturation successful academics, show gaps betwixt pupil groups, English language-learner acquisition, graduation and assemblage and vocation readiness.
Schools are rated annually connected a standard of 1-5 stars. The prima strategy takes into relationship respective factors, including standardized English connection arts, mathematics and subject exam performance, chronic absenteeism, and, for precocious schools, graduation rate.
“We privation to admit our schools successful the aforesaid mode we admit students: for world excellence and for achieving growth,” Ebert said successful a statement. “These gains are the effect of hard enactment from truthful galore people. Congratulations to the teachers, enactment professionals, administrators, students, and families of the schools connected the Superintendent’s Honor Roll. They are proving that each schoolhouse is susceptible of creating rigorous, joyful learning for our students.”
The 5-star schools were:
Blue Diamond Elementary School
Bonner Elementary School
Darnell Elementary School
Gehring Academy of Science and Technology
Goolsby Elementary School
Lamping Elementary School
McCaw Elementary School
McDoniel Elementary School
Piggott Academy of International Studies
Smalley Elementary School
Stuckey Elementary School
Glen C. Taylor Elementary School
Gunderson Middle School
Lied STEM Academy
Mannion Middle School
O'Callaghan Middle School
Rogich Middle School
Advanced Technologies Academy
College of Southern Nevada High School East
College of Southern Nevada High School South
College of Southern Nevada High School West
Coronado High School
East Career and Technical Academy
Green Valley High School
Las Vegas Academy of the Arts
Moapa Valley High School
Northwest Career and Technical Academy
Palo Verde High School
Southeast Career and Technical Academy
Southwest Career and Technical Academy
Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy
West Career and Technical Academy
The Nevada Department of Education released the prima ratings successful September.
Mock predetermination kicks off
The kid-friendly Student Mock Election began past week.
Starting Thursday and done the remainder of the month, students tin reply these questions online: Should Nevada halt changing its clocks for daylight redeeming time? Should students person a dependable successful deciding consequences erstwhile schoolhouse rules are broken? Should Nevada acceptable a minimum property for having a compartment telephone oregon societal media account? And, should Nevada necessitate each simple schools to supply astatine slightest 20 minutes of regular recess?
The 2026 Mock Election is simply a collaborative effort of the Nevada Secretary of State's Office and its Youth Advisory Task Force, the Nevada Department of Education, and the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement.
Participation is unfastened to schools, classes, organizations and younker groups.
The Secretary of State’s bureau bills the mock predetermination arsenic a nonpartisan, acquisition accidental to promote students to go engaged aboriginal successful civics and Nevada’s electoral process.
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