Grand Ledge Public Schools named to AP Achievement List by College Board

By: Nicholas Bright

Living on the Ledge Staff Writer

The Grand Ledge Public School District is one of almost 400 school districts in the nation being honored with a place on the AP Achievement List, by the College Board. Grand Ledge Public Schools were able to open Advanced Placement classrooms to a broader group of students, while still improving the percentage of students earning scores of three or higher.

According to Grand Ledge Public Schools, from 2008 to 2010, Grand Ledge Public Schools has increased the number of students participating in AP courses from 116 to149, while still enabling more than 70 percent of its AP students to earn scores of three or higher in everything except AP Spanish.

With improvements like these, Grand Ledge High School must be doing something different in order to get their students at this high level of learning.

“I have heard the Superintendant talk about a number of programs that have been set and others that will be set up that what sounds like to me should improve testing even more,” the Grand Ledge City Administrator Jon Bayless said.

Tutoring and the National Honors Society are just two of the many school programs helping student at Grand Ledge High school improve their grades and standardized test scores. Also, an addition of two AP classes this school year brought the total of the amount in the school to seven.

These programs have done a lot for the high school, but AP Chemistry teacher Benjamin Lorson thinks that the big boost in the numbers for AP testing comes from the trimester schedule. (more…)

March 22, 2011 | Categories: Education | Tags: Benjamin Lorson, College Board, Grand Ledge Public Schools, Jon Bayless, Kim Manning, Nicholas Bright | Leave a comment