CCSD High Schools Earn Top State 2025 AP Honors

Cherokee County School District’s high schools have earned the state’s top honors for outstanding Advanced Placement programs and performance! 

All six of CCSD’s traditional high schools today were named 2025 AP Honor Schools for exceptional student performance and participation on AP exams, which offer students more challenging coursework and the opportunity to earn college credit.  

Schools can achieve recognition in various categories based on participation and performance.  All six CCSD traditional high schools again earned recognition as AP STEM and AP STEM Achievement Schools, and as AP Humanities and AP Humanities Achievement Schools.  Five schools – Creekview HS, Etowah HS, River Ridge HS, Sequoyah HS and Woodstock HS – additionally earned AP School of Distinction Honors.  

Students who achieve a 3 or higher (on a scale of 1 to 5) can qualify for college credit at most Georgia state colleges and universities, thereby avoiding college tuition payments for those classes.  CCSD students raised their overall AP exam average score to 3.6, up from 3.4, this past spring, while also increasing participation.  Eighty-two percent of CCSD’s exam scores were a 3 or higher – the highest pass rate ever for the school district, up from 78%.  The total value of the college tuition CCSD students will avoid paying due to this success, assuming each exam equals just one college course, is estimated at $6.1 million, up from $4.6 million.  CCSD high schools offer 33 different AP courses.

Thank you to our AP teachers for their unparalleled talent and unmatched dedication and thank you to our School Board for its continued investment in advanced academics.  Our students are learning more, growing more and achieving more in our classrooms! 

CCSD AP HONOR SCHOOLS
• AP STEM Achievement Schools: All CCSD high schools
AP STEM Schools with at least 50 percent of AP exam scores at 3 or higher. 

• AP STEM Schools: All CCSD high schools
Schools administer at least five AP exams in each of four separate AP STEM courses (math, science, and computer science) with at least 25 exams administered.

• AP Humanities Achievement Schools: All CCSD high schools
AP Humanities Schools with at least 50 percent of AP exam scores at 3 or higher.  

• AP Humanities Schools: All CCSD high schools
Schools administer at least five AP exams in each of the following AP categories: one ELA course, two social studies courses, one fine arts course, and one world language course, with at least 25 exams administered.

• AP Schools of Distinction: Creekview HS, Etowah HS, River Ridge HS, Sequoyah HS and Woodstock HS 
At least 20 percent of students take AP exams and at least 50 percent of those students earn scores of 3 or higher.  

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