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AP Enrollment & Exam Score Report for District & Schools Five-Year Trend (2006-10) Michael Loughrey, Ph.D November 2010

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Page 1: AP District Report 2009-10...1 Introduction This AP report examines trends for the total enrollment, as well as ethnic and gender participation in AP courses for the past five years

AP Enrollment &

Exam Score Report for District & Schools

Five-Year Trend (2006-10)

Michael Loughrey, Ph.D November 2010

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ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

BOARD OF EDUCATION

MARTIN ESQUIVEL President

PAULA MAES DOLORES GRIEGO Vice President Secretary

DAVID EUGENE PEERCY

LORENZO L. GARCIA Instructional Policy Chair District Relations Chair

DAVID L. ROBBINS

ROBERT D. LUCERO Finance/Audit Chair Capital Outlay Chair

Superintendent

WINSTON BROOKS

LINDA SINK BRAD WINTER Chief Academic Officer Chief Operations Officer

RUBY ETHRIDGE DIANE KERSCHEN Associate Superintendent Associate Superintendent

RAQUEL REEDY EDUARDO SOTO Associate Superintendent Associate Superintendent

INSTRUCTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Rose-Ann McKernan, Executive Director

Research, Deployment & Accountability Thomas Genné, Director

6400 Uptown Blvd. NE (400 EAST) Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110

(505) 872-6870 www.rda.aps.edu

This report is available on the RDA website (www.rda.aps.edu) under Publications.

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Executive Summary APS has kept detailed records of AP enrollment for at least the last seven years. This report documents the past five years. Having this longitudinal perspective allows APS to determine how far AP enrollment has come and where it is headed. APS is currently offering 27 of the 34 College Board’s AP courses. A primary goal of the district is to increase the diversity in AP courses by having the ethnic and gender representation in the AP courses more closely approach the ethnic and gender representation of the high school enrollment. Much of this report deals with those comparisons.

• AP enrollment in courses across the district grew by 24% from 2008-09 to 2009-10 (Figure 1) and varied from school to school. Highland, Albuquerque, Manzano, and West Mesa showed the largest growth, while Volcano Vista finally had a full school to take AP courses (Table 1).

• Enrollment for all ethnicities increased over the past two years (Figure 2 & 3)

with Hispanics showing the largest increase.

• Based on district demographics, the enrollment of Whites and Hispanics far exceeds the enrollment of Asians, Native American, and Blacks in AP courses (Figure 3).

• According to the index in Figure 4, Asians, followed by Whites, have the greatest

proportion of their school populations taking AP courses. Both groups are overrepresented, while Hispanics, Native Americans, and Blacks are underrepresented (Figure 4).

• The gap between Hispanic and White enrollment shrank and is the smallest it has

ever been (Figure 3).

• Whereas the percentage of Whites in 2003-04 was 62% of the AP enrollment (that date precedes the years in this report), it is now 49% (Table 3). The Hispanic percent of the enrollment has increased from 29% to 39% over that time. Black, Native American, and Asian have remained about the same percentage over that same period of time with 3%, 3%, and 5%, respectively (Table 3).

• Males represent 51% of the high school population, yet only 42% (n = 2955) of

AP enrollees (Figure 5). There are 4029 female AP students representing 58% of AP enrollment.

• English Language, English Literature, U.S. History and World History, and US

Govt & Politics represent 62% of AP enrollment in 2009-10 (Table 4).

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• Studio Art 3-D Design and Music Theory were added in 2009-10 (Table 4).

• 62.9%, or 4394 of the 6984 AP course enrollments, were unique students (Table 5).

• There were 5.6% fewer test takers in 2009-10 (50.6%) than in the previous year.

(Table 6).

• There were 4.4% more qualifying exam scores (scores of 3, 4, or 5) in 2009-10 (53.9%) than in the previous year. (Table 7).

• Four students took and received qualifying scores on the AP Chinese Language &

Culture exam. Some of those students took a non-AP Chinese language course at CEC. One other student received a qualifying score on the Japanese Language & Culture exam. There was also one student in the district who took the AP Computer Science A exam.

• The appendix shows the number of students at each school enrolled in each

course. At this point time the only seven AP courses that were not offered in APS in 2009-10 were Latin: Vergil, Government & Politics: Comparative, Italian Language & Culture, Japanese Language & Culture, Chinese Language & Culture, Micro-Economics, and Human Geography. Human Geography has been approved by the APS Curriculum Board and has been offered as recently as last year. The Curriculum Board has also approved Microeconomics, as it did Macroeconomics, but it is Macroeconomics that satisfies the state requirement for seniors in economics. Government & Politics: Comparative has not been approved. It does not satisfy a state requirement for seniors in government like US Government & Politics does. Neither of the three languages, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese, are approved AP courses, but both Japanese and Chinese language courses have been offered at CEC in recent years. Both this year and last year a couple of students took AP exams in Chinese and Japanese. With its 27courses, APS has a full complement of AP courses.

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Introduction This AP report examines trends for the total enrollment, as well as ethnic and gender participation in AP courses for the past five years (2006-2010). Also included is an index of ethnic representation, percent of students taking exams, and percent of qualifying scores. Figure 1

The growth in AP enrollment of 24% from 2009 to 2010 was probably the largest the district has ever seen. This represents an increase of 1340 AP course enrollments (Figure 1). Volcano Vista in its first year of having a full school had the greatest impact on this increase with an additional 500 AP enrollments. Additionally, Highland, Manzano, Albuquerque, and West Mesa (Table 1) showed the greatest increases in their enrollment of 57%, 45%, 32%, and 31%, respectively. Lastly, Atrisco Heritage Academy added to the district increase in its first year of AP courses with 99 students.

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Table 1 Enrollment Over Three Years

High Schools 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Albuquerque 469 503 666 Atrisco Heritage Acad. NA* NA* 99 Cibola 638 656 622 Del Norte 405 494 473 Eldorado 354 595 611 Highland 370 370 582 La Cueva 884 959 1037 Manzano 393 290 421 Rio Grande 473 499 462 Sandia 426 345 379 Volcano Vista NA* 227 724 Valley 255 208 239 West Mesa 527 461 606 Early College. Acad. 12 15 27 CEC 22 22 36

Total 5228 5644 6984 *Volcano Vista has only had AP courses for two years and Atrisco Heritage Academy for one year.

For the past two years, the number of schools that offer each of the 34 College Board’s AP courses are listed in Table 2 with district increases or decreases of those course offerings in the past year. Last year the district offered 27 distinct AP courses. Table 2

Changes in District Courses Offerings for the Past Two Years

Number of Schools Offering Courses

AP Courses

2008-09

2009-10

Change in School Offerings

Science Biology 5 5 0 Chemistry 5 7 +2 Environmental Science 4 3 -1 Physics B 6 8 +2 Physics C: Mechanics & Physics C: Electromagnetism

1 1

2 2

+1 +1

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English English Language & Composition 11 10 -1 English Literature & Composition 11 13 +2

History & Social Studies U. S. History 11 11 0 World History 12 13 +1 European History 1 1 0 Economics-

• Macro 4 5 +1 • Micro

Psychology 4 7 +3 Human Geography 1 0 -1 U. S. Govt. & Politics 8 9 +1

Mathematics Calculus I 13 12 -1 Calculus II 8 8 0 Statistics 2 4 +2

Foreign Language Spanish Language 5 8 +3 Spanish Literature 4 7 +3 French Language 2 3 +1 German Language 1 1 0 Italian Language & Culture Japanese Language & Culture Chinese Language & Culture Latin: Vergil

Art & Music Art History 1 2 +1 Studio Art

• Drawing 5 6 +1 • 2-D Design 1 2 +1 • 3-D Design 1 +1

Music Theory 1 +1 Computer Science

Computer Science A Besides the totals for the 13 comprehensive high schools, this table also includes the courses taught at CEC and Early College Academy.

Three more schools offered Psychology, Spanish Literature, and Spanish Language, while two more schools offered Chemistry, Physics B, English Literature & Composition, and Statistics in 2009-10 from the previous year. Music Theory and Studio Art 3-D Design were offered for the first time in 2009-10. A table with enrollment for each course at each school is in the Appendix.

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Figure 2 shows the district trends in enrollment for each ethnic group over the past five years. In 2009-10, Hispanics showed more increase in enrollment than any other ethnic group although all ethnic groups showed increases. Figure2

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Figure 3 uses a different way than Figure 2 of illustrating ethnic group enrollment over the past five years. The slope of the line determines growth or decline. Because of their larger populations in the district, White and Hispanic are the lines in the top part of the graph. In 2007-08, there was a narrowing of the gap in AP enrollment between Hispanics and Whites, but in 2009-10 that gap closed more than it ever has. Again, the lines at the bottom of the graph for sub-populations (Black, Native Americans, and Asians) with lower district enrollment also show increases in enrollment. Figure 3

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Table 3 gives the percentage of the representation of each ethnic group in AP courses over the past five years. The highlighted row at the bottom of the district and each school shows the 40-day enrollment for each ethnic group for 2009-10. The district total is based on high school enrollment only. This table differs from the previous two figures because they report the number of enrolled students and this table reports the percentage of enrolled students. Black, Native American, and Asian enrollments in the district represented approximately 4%, 5%, and 3%, respectively, in 2009-10, while Hispanic and White enrollment represented 53% and 35%, respectively. Reading down the column under each ethnic group for the district and for many schools gives an idea of the increasing diversity of enrollment over the past five years. Table 3

Ethnic Diversity in AP Enrollment Compared to School Enrollment

AP

Enrollment Year

Percentage of Ethnic Enrollment

% White

% Black

% Hispanic

% Nat.

Amer.

% Asian

% Pac.

IslanderDistrict (HS only) 2005-06 60 3 30 3 6 2006-07 57 3 33 2 5 2007-08 52 3 37 3 5 2008-09 53 3 36 3 6 2009-10 49 3 39 3 5 District % 34.6 4.5 53.4 4.9 2.6 Albuquerque 2005-06 60 3 30 3 6 2006-07 57 3 33 2 5 2007-08 52 3 37 3 5 2008-09 52 2 40 2 4 2009-10 49 3 41 4 3 School % 16.9 5.2 72.8 4.1 .9 *Atrisco Heritage 2009-10 11 3 84 2 0 School% 8.0 1.9 87.0 2.6 .4 Cibola 2005-06 69 2 24 2 3 2006-07 65 4 24 2 5 2007-08 61 4 27 2 6 2008-09 59 3 30 3 5 2009-10 59 5 30 2 3 School % 45.8 5.5 41.9 4.6 2.2 Del Norte 2005-06 56 7 22 7 8 2006-07 53 5 31 3 8 2007-08 51 4 31 8 5 2008-09 50 6 37 4 3 2009-10 44 4 41 8 3 School % 29.3 5.4 51.1 12.7 1.5

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AP Enrollment

Year

% White

% Black

% Hispanic

% Nat. Am.

% Asian

% Pac.

IslanderEldorado 2005-06 85 <1 9 1 5 2006-07 85 1 10 2 3 2007-08 83 <1 9 3 5 2008-09 84 3 10 1 3 2009-10 79 3 13 3 3 School % 67.0 4.0 22.8 3.5 2.6 Highland 2005-06 46 4 38 4 8 2006-07 36 2 49 5 8 2007-08 32 7 49 7 5 2008-09 35 7 43 5 9 2009-10 35 10 42 6 8 School % 18.6 10.6 55.8 11.0 4.0 La Cueva 2005-06 74 2 9 1 14 2006-07 73 2 12 <1 12 2007-08 71 2 14 <1 12 2008-09 67 3 13 3 14 2009-10 71 1 13 1 13 School % 66.3 2.6 21.4 2.2 7.5 Manzano 2005-06 68 4 19 3 6 2006-07 74 2 16 1 7 2007-08 73 3 15 2 8 2008-09 67 3 13 3 14 2009-10 68 4 18 2 9 School % 45.1 6.9 38.0 5.4 4.6 Rio Grande 2005-06 11 2 83 3 <1 2006-07 12 2 85 2 <1 2007-08 11 <1 87 2 <1 2008-09 11 <1 87 2 <1 2009-10 8 <1 90 <1 1 School % 6.7 1.4 90.1 1.7 .2 Sandia 2005-06 77 2 15 1 6 2006-07 71 4 21 2 2 2007-08 72 3 19 4 3 2008-09 71 2 21 1 4 2008-09 67 3 22 2 6 School % 55.2 4.2 32.5 4.3 3.8 Valley 2005-06 53 2 41 3 <1 2006-07 48 2 47 2 1 2007-08 33 2 62 2 < 2008-09 32 1 63 2 2 2009-10 27 0 72 0 1 School % 13.8 1.7 81.5 2.9 .1

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AP Enrollment

Year

% White

% Black

% Hispanic

% Nat. Am.

% Asian

% Pac.

Islander*Volcano Vista 2008-09 47 3 43 4 3 2009-10 48 3 42 3 4 <1 School % 40.0 4.9 49.0 3.9 2.2 West Mesa 2005-06 16 3 72 7 3 2006-07 14 4 72 7 3 2007-08 11 4 77 6 2 2008-09 13 3 78 5 2 2009-10 12 2 78 6 3 School % 8.7 3.5 79.8 6.8 1.1 **CEC 2005-06 86 3 10 2006-07 85 12 4 2007-08 82 5 14 2008-09 86 5 9 2009-10 72 14 14 School % NA NA NA NA NA NA *ECA 2007-08 67 8 25 2008-09 67 33 2009-10 74 15 11 School % 43.5 4.8 46.8 1.6 3.2

*Because they are new schools, 2008 is the first year that Early College Academy (ECA) offered an AP course, 2009 is the first year that Volcano Vista did, and 2010 is the first year that Atrisco Heritage Academy did. **Since CEC is a magnet school ethnicity is not calculated for the school

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Index for AP Ethnic Enrollment

In 2003, Broward County Public Schools in South Florida created an index (Leonard, et al, 2003) to track AP participation across ethnic groups in relation to the ethnic enrollment in its district. The intent was to measure whether the achievement gap in AP enrollment was closing. In the graph below, the same index is illustrated with APS data for the past five years. It is ideal for each ethnic group to have an index number of 1.0, which would mean that the ethnicity of the AP population match that of the district high school enrollment for that ethnicity. Below 1.0 indicates under representation and over 1.0 indicates overrepresentation in AP courses. The index is simply the percent of that ethnic group in our high schools divided into the percent of that ethnic group enrolled in AP courses. This index is a gross measure of ethnic representation in AP courses. In APS, Whites and Asians are overrepresented while Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are about equally underrepresented. In 2009-10, Whites’ AP enrollment as a percentage of total enrollment decreased as did Asians slightly. In 2009-10, the decrease in the gap between Whites and Hispanics is noticeable.

Figure 4

Leonard, T., Blasik, K., Dilgen, A, & Till, F (2003). Advanced placement programs as a means of narrowing the achievement gap. ERS Spectrum, Spring, 4-14.

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Figure 5 shows the trend of the growth for males and females in AP course for the past five years. Across the district, as well as in each school, appreciably more females than males have been enrolled in AP courses over each of the past five years. Males have usually comprised over 50% of the high school student population, yet in 2009-10 they represented only 42% of AP enrollment, slightly less than last year. Figure 5

Table 4 shows the enrollment of each of the 27 AP course offered across the district for the past three years. The last column is accompanied by the percent of total AP enrollment each course represented for 2009-10. The table is ordered by the highest course enrollment to the lowest for 2009-10. As has been the case for the last several years English Language & Composition, World History, English Literature & Composition, and US History have had four of the five highest enrollments. This year US Government & Politics was the fifth course with the highest enrollment taking the position that Calculus I held the last several years. Together these five comprise 62% of enrollments. Typically, the highest five courses had comprised 68-71% of enrollments. English Language & Composition has seen the greatest increase in enrollment of all courses during the past three years with two more schools offering it in 2009-10. Enrollment has also increased in US Government, Spanish Language, Economics, Chemistry, and Psychology. Calculus I has decreased enrollment and enrollment in Calculus II has stayed about the same over the past three years. Enrollment in the sciences is still about 11% of total AP enrollment, which is what it has been for the last several years.

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Table 4

AP Courses at District Level

AP Courses

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Enrollment %

English Lang & Comp 741 931 1117 16.0 World History & Geog 872 920 974 13.9 English Lit & Comp 842 737 859 12.3 US History & Geog 660 761 817 11.7 US Govt & Politics 312 257 562 8.0 Calculus I 453 491 422 6.0 Spanish V Lang 141 195 293 4.2 Economics-Macro 71 148 285 4.1 Psychology 125 89 243 3.5 Environmental Science 42 205 207 3.0 Physics B 297 174 212 3.0 Statistics 96 118 182 2.6 Chemistry 94 117 183 2.6 Spanish V Lit 108 93 168 2.4 Biology 105 126 129 1.8 Calculus II 91 84 84 1.2 Studio Art: Drawing 78 49 83 1.2 *Physics C: Mechanics *Physics C: Electromag. 70 22 56 .8

Art History 1 23 43 .6 European History 17 28 33 .5 Studio Art: 2-D NA 4 11 .2 Studio Art: 3-D NA NA 6 .1 Music Theory NA NA 5 .1 German V 7 4 2 <.1 French V 5 3 8 <.1 **Human Geography 0 65 0 0 Total 5228 5644 6984 100.0

*Physics C is comprised of two AP courses in which student take a full credit of Mechanics in the fall and a full credit of Electromagnetism in the spring. **Not offered in 2009-10.

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Table 5 represents the number of unique students enrolled in one or more AP course in 2009-10. Across the district, 62.9% of the 6984 AP enrollments were unique students. That means that the converse, 37.1% of the enrollment, were students who enrolled in more than one AP course. There is no inherent value attached to whether a school has a lower or higher percentage of “unique students enrolled” than the district or another school. There could be several reasons for the high percentage of unique students or, on the other hand, for a high percentage of students who took more than one AP course. (This table was put in ascending order based on percent of unique students as an organizing principle only.) A larger number of course offerings at some schools could explain why some students take more than one AP course. Conversely, the higher percentage of unique students enrolled in AP courses could be an indication that the school is more inclusive. The truth is, each school’s percentages of unique students enrolled or the percentage of students enrolled in multiple courses is an interaction of those two conditions. Each school is the best judge of how to interpret the data in Table 5. Table 5

Percent of Unique Students Taking an AP Course (2009-10)

School

Unique Students Enrolled

School's Total AP Enrollment

Percent of Unique Students Enrolled

Percent of Students

Enrolled in Multiple

AP Courses

Albuquerque 345 666 51.8 48.2 West Mesa 335 606 55.3 44.7 Highland 332 582 57.0 43.0 Del Norte 271 473 57.3 42.7 La Cueva 606 1037 58.4 41.6 Eldorado 383 611 62.3 37.7 District 4394 6984 62.9 37.1 Early College Acad. 17 27 63.0 37.0 Rio Grande 294 462 63.6 36.4 Manzano 277 421 65.8 34.2 Volcano Vista 491 724 67.8 32.2 Cibola 444 622 71.4 28.6 Sandia 282 379 74.4 25.6 Valley 190 239 79.5 20.5 Atrisco Heritage 92 99 92.9 7.1 CEC * 36 * *

*CEC only has the two Physics C courses, and its students typically take other AP courses at their home school.

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For both the district and each school, Table 6 lists the percent of the total exams taken. Essentially, the percentage of exams taken has decreased about 5.6% since 2008-09. Table 6

Percent of Test Takers over Three Years

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

School Percent of

Test TakersPercent of

Test TakersTotal

Exams School AP Enrollment

Percent of AP Enrollees

Taking Exams

Albuquerque 79.3 76.7 445 666 66.8 *Atrisco Heritage NA NA 85 99 85.9 Cibola 63.3 46.5 230 622 37.0 Del Norte 61.2 51.6 181 473 38.3 Eldorado 70.9 48.7 364 611 59.6 Highland 45.7 57.6 207 582 35.6 La Cueva 53.7 50.7 551 1037 53.1 Manzano 55.7 65.9 267 421 63.4 Rio Grande 58.1 54.1 197 462 42.6 Sandia 56.6 50.7 198 379 53.2 Valley 55.3 48.6 140 239 58.6 *Volcano Vista NA 42.7 205 724 28.3 West Mesa 42.5 85.7 403 606 66.5 Early Coll. Acad. 0 0 19 27 70.4 CEC NA 36.4 24** 36 NA Sierra Alternative NA NA 21 0 NA District 57.8 56.2 3537 6984 50.6 *Because they are new schools, 2009 is the first year Volcano Vista offered AP courses and 2010 is the first year Atrisco Heritage Academy did. ** Includes 14 students who took Physics C: Mechanics exams and 7 who also took Physics C: Electromagnetism, as well as two students who took AP Chinese and AP English Lit & Comp exams for which there were no AP courses offered at CEC.

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Table 7 reports for the district and schools the percent of AP qualifying exam scores, i.e., those that are 3, 4, or 5. Most colleges will award credit for qualifying scores. Table 7

Percent of Qualifying Scores over Three Years 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

School

Percent of Qualifying

Scores

Percent of Qualifying

Scores Total

Exams Qualifying

Scores

Percent of Qualifying

Scores Albuquerque 56.2 54.7 445 306 68.2 Atrisco Heritage NA NA 85 10 11.8 Cibola 46.3 50.3 230 126 54.3 Del Norte 31.9 25.9 181 48 26.5 Eldorado 78.1 71.0 364 255 70.1 Highland 53.3 51.9 207 122 58.9 La Cueva 75.6 76.1 551 423 75.9 Manzano 41.1 38.6 267 101 37.7 Rio Grande 25.5 21.1 197 55 27.9 Sandia 71.4 70.5 198 140 68.6 Valley 38.3 29.7 140 66 47.1 Volcano Vista NA 41.7 205 96 46.4 West Mesa 21.4 30.9 403 129 32.0 ECA 0 19 147 73.7 CEC NR** 24 15 62.5 Sierra NA NA 21 0 0 District 51.5 49.5 3537 1906 53.9

*Because they are new schools, 2008 is the first year that Early College Academy (ECA) offered an AP course, 2009 is the first year that Volcano Vista offered one, and 2010 is the first year that Atrisco Heritage Academy offered one. **Fewer than 10 scores are not reported for confidentiality purposes. Conclusion The 24% increase in AP enrollment from the previous year was probably the most ever. There were more schools that offered social science AP courses, i.e., Psychology, Economics, and US Govt and Politics (Table 2) and appreciable growth in student enrollment from schools that were already offering those three courses. Studio Art 3-D Design and Music Theory were the only new courses offered in 2009-10. The percent of students taking exams has decreased about 5.6% from the previous year and the percentage of qualifying scores has increased 4.4% from 49.5% in 2008-09 to 53.9% in 2009-10.

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The most likely courses where growth will come from will be in the sciences, i.e., Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics B, and Physics C. There was some growth in Chemistry, Physics, B, and Physics C this past year but there is room for more. One reason that the AP science course enrollment may not be growing as much as other courses is because of the expensive materials needed.

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Appendix

Number of Students Enrolled in Each Course at Each School (2009-10) Cibola N Albuquerque N US History & Geog 49 Eldorado N US History & Geog 73 World History & Geog 133 US History & Geog 93World History & Geog 108 US Govt & Politics 32 World History & Geog 60US Govt & Politics 70 English Lang & Comp 113 US Govt & Politics 64Economics-Macro 59 English Lit & Comp 99 English Lang & Comp 150English Lang & Comp 74 Statistics 62 English Lit & Comp 117English Lit & Comp 53 Calculus I 40 Calculus I 58Calculus I 46 Physics B 3 Calculus II 17Calculus II 14 Chemistry 12 Biology 19Psychology 34 Physics C: Mechanics 20 Psychology 33French V 3 Physics C: Electromag. Total Courses = 9 611Spanish V Lit 23 Psychology 29 Spanish V Lang 85 French V 2 Highland N Studio Art: Drawing 12 Spanish V Lang 13 US History & Geog 69Art History 12 Studio Art: Drawing 10 World History & Geog 30

Total Courses = 14 666 Music Theory 5 US Govt & Politics 47 Total Courses = 15 622 Economics-Macro 41 English Lang & Comp 129 Del Norte N English Lit & Comp 84 US History & Geog 64 Calculus I 18 World History & Geog 75 Biology 3Atrisco Heritage N US Govt & Politics 68 Chemistry 13World History Economics-Macro 59 Psychology 32Spanish V Lit. English Lang & Comp 76 French V 3Spanish V Lang English Lit & Comp 71 German V 2

Total Courses = 3 99 Calculus I 22 Spanish V Lit 19 Physics B 15 Spanish V Lang 57 Chemistry 23 History of Art 31 Total Courses = 9 473 Studio Art: Drawing 4La Cueva N Total Courses = 16 582US History & Geog 136 Rio Grande N World History & Geog 126 US History & Geog 25 Valley N European History 33 World History & Geog 22 US History & Geog 60English Lang & Comp 186 US Govt & Politics 63 World History & Geog 70English Lit & Comp 102 Economics-Macro 53 US Govt & Politics 1Statistics 82 English Lang & Comp 37 English Lit & Comp 48Calculus I 59 English Lit & Comp 17 Calculus I 24Calculus II 22 Physics B 14 Calculus II 5Physics B 73 Biology 31 Psychology 32Biology 64 Chemistry 35 Spanish V Lit. 4Chemistry 28 Environmental Science 56 Spanish V Lang. 27Environmental Science 126 Spanish V Lit 47 Total Courses = 9 239

Total Courses = 12 1037 Spanish V Lang 62 Total Courses = 12 462

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Manzano N Sandia N Volcano Vista N US History & Geog 36 World History & Geog 75 US History & Geog 160World History & Geog 78 English Lang & Comp 40 World History & Geog 147US Govt & Politics 54 English Lit & Comp 46 US Govt & Politics 94English Lit & Comp 54 Statistics 22 English Lang & Comp 180Calculus I 32 Calculus I 54 English Lit & Comp 54Calculus II 15 Calculus II 8 Calculus I 39Physics B 42 Physics B 32 Calculus II 1Biology 12 Chemistry 38 Physics B 22Chemistry 34 Environmental Science 25 Spanish V Lang. 2Psychology 64 Psychology 19 Studio Art 18

Total Courses = 10 421 Spanish Lit. 1 Studio 2D 1 Studio Art: Drawing 19 Studio 3D 6 Total Courses = 12 379 Total Courses = 12 724 West Mesa N Early College Acad. N US History & Geog 63 English Lit.Comp 14 World History & Geog 32 Calculus I 13 US Govt & Politics 70 Total Courses = 2 27 Economics-Macro 73 English Lang & Comp 132 CEC N English Lit & Comp 93 Physics C: Mechanics 36 Statistics 16 Physics C: Electromag. Calculus I 26 Total Courses = 1 36 Calculus II 3 Physics B 11 Spanish V Lit 30 Spanish V Lang 27 Studio Art: Drawing 20 Studio Art: 2D 10

Total Courses = 14 606