• Advanced Placement (AP) courses offer students the opportunity to take college-level courses while in high school. AP courses also provide students with the opportunity to earn college credit by participating in and passing the AP exam in May.

    Students earn a 0.5 GPA (grade point average) increase per class towards their weighted GPA upon successful completion of the course. Using the table below, a GPA is assigned to each grade earned. For classes with AP in the course title, the final column in the table below is used. All GPA values are added up and divided by the total number of grades. 

    GPA scale

     

    For more information about AP course content, visit CollegeBoard's AP student central.