Early Access to AP
Support your college readiness goals by offering AP courses earlier, and prepare your students for success in those courses by offering Pre-AP.
Ensuring students have early exposure to advanced learning is critical. Popular AP courses for early high school are:
| Grade Level | Most Popular Courses |
|---|---|
| Grade 9 | AP Human Geography |
| Grade 10 | AP World History: Modern AP European History AP Seminar AP Computer Science Principles AP World Language and Culture courses |
Additionally, making sure students are prepared for success in these courses is important.
In Pre-AP, students have frequent opportunities to engage deeply with texts, sources, and data, as well as compelling higher-order questions and problems. Across Pre-AP courses, students experience instructional practices and routines that help them develop the important critical thinking skills needed to succeed in AP.
Certain Pre-AP courses are back mapped from AP and provide a uniquely powerful preparation for students wishing to pursue these courses.
| Pre-AP Resource | AP Course |
|---|---|
| All Pre-AP courses and projects | AP Seminar |
| Pre-AP Algebra 1 Pre-AP Algebra 1 Projects Middle School Algebra Explorations Project | AP Business with Personal Finance AP Calculus AB AP Computer Science Principles AP Precalculus AP Statistics |
| Pre-AP Algebra 2 | AP Calculus AB AP Physics 1 AP Physics 2 AP Precalculus AP Statistics |
| Pre-AP Biology | AP Biology AP Environmental Science |
| Pre-AP Chemistry | AP Chemistry AP Environmental Science |
| Middle School Computer Science Explorations Project | AP Business with Personal Finance AP Computer Science Principles AP Cybersecurity |
| Pre-AP English 1 and 2 | AP African American Studies AP English Language and Composition AP English Literature and Composition English 10: AP Seminar |
| Pre-AP Geometry with Statistics | AP Calculus AB AP Precalculus AP Statistics |
| Pre-AP Visual and Performing Arts | AP 2-D Art and Design AP 3-D Art and Design AP African American Studies AP Drawing |
| Pre-AP World History and Geography | AP African American Studies AP European History AP Human Geography AP United States History AP World History: Modern |
Learn more about how Pre-AP supports student success in AP.