NEW — 12:37 p.m. Dec. 11, 2015
The Issaquah School District was selected as one of 425 districts in North America to make the College Board’s annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll for increasing access to Advanced Placement course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on Advanced Placement exams.
To land on the honor roll, eligible districts must:
- Increase participation or access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, 6 percent in medium districts and 11 percent in small districts.
- Increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African-American, Latino and Native American students.
- Improve or maintain performance levels when comparing the 2015 percentage of students scoring a 3 or higher to the 2013 percentage, 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.
Also, Gov. Jay Inslee recently praised the district for exceptional performance in signing up eligible students for the state’s College Bound Scholarship. The governor described Issaquah as one of the best-performing districts in the state.
The scholarship program offers college tuition toward the state’s post-secondary educational institutions to students who, because of financial restraints, may not otherwise have an opportunity to pursue their education after high school.
