Irving ISD announced today that it’s among just over 1 percent of Texas school districts to make the College Board’s fourth annual AP Honor Roll.
The College Board is an educational megagroup that runs SAT tests, AP classes and other programs found in nearly every American high school. It reserves its annual honor roll for school districts that increase the number of students taking its AP exams without seeing a drop in scores.
Irving ISD has done well on that front.
While the high-poverty district often gets knocked for its middling state and federal test scores, it has increased the number of students in AP courses by nearly 14 percent since 2011.
More importantly, the number of Irving students with above-average scores on the AP exam has risen by 23 percent over the same period.
AP programs help students get into universities and count as college credit. So while Irving ISD gets top honors for the first time (joining high-scoring districts like Coppell ISD and Frisco ISD) its students are getting opportunities they might not otherwise have. Well done.