Massachusetts High Schoolers Rank First in Advanced Placement Scores

With its stellar public school system and world-class universities, Massachusetts is to education what the Patriots are to professional football, but the bay state’s high school students have never come in first on the College Board’s Advanced Placement exam scores before 2016. Last year’s graduating class changed that, with 31 percent of all students scoring 3 or higher out of a possible 5 on an AP exam, as reported by the Boston Globe.”We are very pleased to see such a large percentage of Massachusetts students successfully participating in Advanced Placement coursework and exams and look forward to continued success in expanding those efforts,” said Governor Charlie Baker in a statement on the Department of Education’s website. Read more about Advanced Placement success in Massachusetts >>