The 8th Annual AP Report to the Nation State Supplement February 8, 2012 Knowledge Skills Behaviors Awareness New Mexico
New Mexico Table of Contents Fostering Participation and Success 2 4 About This Report This report provides educators and policymakers with information they can use to celebrate their successes, understand their unique challenges and set meaningful goals to increase opportunity for all students. It s important to note that while AP Exams are valid measures of students content mastery of collegelevel studies in specific academic disciplines, AP results should never be used as the sole measure for gauging educational excellence and equity. Because reliable demographic data for nonpublic schools are not available for all states, this report represents public school students only. Additionally, this report looks at students entire experience with AP tracking exams taken by graduates throughout their high school career as opposed to reporting exam results from a particular calendar year. Additional data are available at apreport.collegeboard.org. Note: Throughout this report, public high school graduates represent projections supplied in Knocking at the College Door (2008), Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. 1
Fostering Participation and Success Figure 1 Growth in AP participation and success Number of Number of 2,288 3,385 3,980 4,274 1,178 1,623 1,820 1,954 More graduates are succeeding on AP Exams today than ever before Figure 2 Participation in and success on AP Exams in the class of 2011 Percentage of Percentage of Percentage of New Mexico Student Population Total Number of Students: 17,567 24.3% 15.2% 13.1% 11.1% 6.7% 5.2% 4.9% 1.3% 0.7% 2.3% 4.1% 1.8% 3.4% 2.4% Art English Math Science Social World Any Science Languages Discipline Subject Area Exams: Art: Art History, Music Theory, Studio Art: Drawing Portfolio, Studio Art: 2D Design Portfolio and Studio Art: 3D Design Portfolio English: English Language and Composition and English Literature and Composition Math: Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Computer Science A, Computer Science AB* and Statistics Science: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics B, Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism and Physics C: Mechanics Social Science: Comparative Government and Politics, European History, Human Geography, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, United States Government and Politics, United States History and World History World Languages: Chinese Language and Culture, French Language and Culture, French Literature*, German Language and Culture, Italian Language and Culture*, Japanese Language and Culture, Latin Literature*, Latin: Vergil, Spanish Language and Spanish Literature * The AP Computer Science AB, French Literature, and Latin Literature Exams were last offered in May 2009. AP Italian Language and Culture was last offered in May 2009, and was reinstated in the 201112 school year. English had the greatest number of students achieving a score of 3 or higher 2
Fostering Participation and Success Figure 3 Score distribution of AP Exams taken by the class of 2011 during high school + Ten Most Popular AP Exams Score of 1 Score of 2 Score of 3 Score of 4 Score of 5 Rank Subject No. of Exams % of Exam Scores Art History 22 0.0 9.1 45.5 27.3 18.2 Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism 26 3.8 11.5 23.1 30.8 30.8 7 Spanish Language 509 10.8 14.1 19.4 27.7 27.9 Physics C: Mechanics 63 15.9 9.5 23.8 31.7 19.0 Calculus BC 165 22.4 6.1 17.0 13.3 41.2 10 Psychology 250 23.6 8.8 16.8 24.4 26.4 Studio Art: Drawing Portfolio 70 4.3 34.3 38.6 18.6 4.3 Studio Art: 2D Design Portfolio 96 7.3 32.3 42.7 15.6 2.1 German Language and Culture 31 32.3 9.7 16.1 19.4 22.6 Spanish Literature 126 27.0 21.4 34.1 14.3 3.2 European History 144 30.6 18.1 34.7 12.5 4.2 Physics B 183 31.1 19.1 27.3 15.3 7.1 9 Statistics 267 35.2 16.1 24.0 16.9 7.9 1 English Language and Composition 1,960 18.3 35.7 26.2 13.4 6.4 2 English Literature and Composition 1,710 15.6 41.2 26.5 11.2 5.4 6 Calculus AB 615 48.3 9.3 12.7 13.8 15.9 Environmental Science 123 48.0 11.4 12.2 22.8 5.7 Macroeconomics 214 44.4 19.2 10.7 21.5 4.2 Music Theory 47 31.9 31.9 12.8 8.5 14.9 French Language and Culture 25 52.0 12.0 24.0 8.0 4.0 Chemistry 249 53.8 12.4 12.0 9.6 12.0 Human Geography 48 56.3 10.4 14.6 12.5 6.3 8 Biology 427 55.5 12.6 9.4 9.4 13.1 5 United States Government and Politics 878 46.8 23.8 17.9 7.6 3.9 4 World History 955 44.9 25.8 17.9 7.4 4.0 Studio Art: 3D Design Portfolio 21 28.6 42.9 23.8 4.8 0.0 3 United States History 1,231 40.6 31.4 15.6 8.7 3.7 Computer Science A 35 65.7 11.4 2.9 5.7 14.3 Japanese Language and Culture 5 80.0 20.0 0.0 Latin: Vergil 5 60.0 20.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 Microeconomics 66 65.2 19.7 9.1 4.5 1.5 Chinese Language and Culture 3 Comparative Government and Politics 1 Computer Science AB* 1 French Literature* 0 Italian Language and Culture* 0 Latin Literature* 0 + Percentages do not always equal due to rounding. * The AP Computer Science AB, French Literature, and Latin Literature Exams were last offered in May 2009. AP Italian Language and Culture was last offered in May 2009, and was reinstated in the 201112 school year. Courses with fewer than five examtakers were omitted from the data for the class of 2011. 3
Low Income Figure 4... who are from lowincome backgrounds 4,627 exams were taken by lowincome graduates in the class of 2011 9 7 5 3 37.5% 32.2% 47.9% 47.8% 43. 40.5% 1 N/A N/A 1,268 523 1,905 783 2,041 792 At time of press, the numbers of lowincome students for each graduating class and for lowincome examtakers prior to the class of 2006 were not available. 4
Black/African American Figure 5 students in the graduating class... who are black/african American 71 black/african American graduates in the class of 2011 took an AP Exam during high school 9 7 5 3 1 2.3% 2.3% 2.4% 2.5% 1.4% 1.8% 2.1% 1.7% 1. 1.5% 1.7% 1. 426 31 12 404 61 25 432 83 31 433 71 20 5
Hispanic/Latino Figure 6 students in the graduating class... who are Hispanic/Latino 1,894 Hispanic/Latino graduates in the class of 2011 took an AP Exam during high school 9 7 5 3 43.7% 28.8% 46.5% 37. 32.3% 49.4% 49.9% 43.6% 44.3% 39.8% 38.6% 24.6% 1 7,954 658 290 8,132 1,252 525 8,803 1,737 725 8,761 1,894 755 6
American Indian/ Alaska Native Figure 7 students in the graduating class... who are American Indian/Alaska Native 201 American Indian/ Alaska Native graduates in the class of 2011 took an AP Exam during high school 9 7 5 3 1 11. 11.3% 11.3% 11.3% 5.1% 5.3% 5. 4.7% 2. 2.3% 1.7% 1.4% 1,996 116 24 1,969 178 38 2,015 198 31 1,986 201 28 7
Asian/Asian American/ Pacific Islander Figure 8 students in the graduating class... who are Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander 134 Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander graduates in the class of 2011 took an AP Exam during high school 9 7 5 3 1 2.8% 3.9% 4.2% 4.2% 2.7% 2.9% 3.3% 3.1% 1.3% 1.6% 1.7% 1.9% 236 62 33 274 99 63 298 133 77 330 134 83 8
White Figure 9 students in the graduating class... who are white 1,660 white graduates in the class of 2011 took an AP Exam during high school 9 7 5 3 60.2% 53.1% 41.7% 49.2% 43.2% 38.3% 44.9% 38.4% 34.5% 47.9% 38.8% 33.8% 1 7,587 1,216 709 6,705 1,461 799 6,151 1,528 818 5,931 1,660 935 9
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