AP and IB programs in neighborhood high schools serve students with higher-than-average but below selective-enrollment achievement¶

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q2 i? Students in selective enrollment high schools have much higher eighth-grade test scores than students in IB and AP programs, which serve students with higher-than-average achievement who could not gain admission to selective enrollment schools. → Melissa Roderick 2009

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Melissa Roderick 2009¶

Melissa Roderick, Jenny Nagaoka, Vanessa Coca, Eliza Moeller. (2009). From High School to the Future: Making Hard Work Pay Off — The Road to College for Students in CPS's Academically Advanced Programs. Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago, Urban Education Institute. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/high-school-future-making-hard-work-pay

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Descriptive comparison of incoming achievement across CPS program types. The report also finds these students do not necessarily come from more advantaged families: IB students have "strikingly similar demographic and socioeconomic characteristics to other students in their school."

"Students in selective enrollment high schools have much higher eighth-grade test scores than students in IB and AP programs in neighborhood high schools. Thus, AP and IB programs seem to be filling an important gap in neighborhood high schools for students who have higher-than-average achievement but still may not be able to gain admission to highly competitive selective enrollment high schools."

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Related Claims¶

• Nearly two-thirds of graduates from academically advanced programs graduate with access to a selective or very selective four-year college — related
• Selective enrollment students from low-income neighborhoods are less likely to attend selective colleges than similarly-performing low-income students who do not enroll — related
• CPS neighborhood IB DP students were 40 percent more likely to attend a four-year college and 50 percent more likely to attend a more selective college than a matched comparison group — related
• Senior-year advanced coursework is unevenly distributed by race/ethnicity among CPS graduates — related
• Despite strong academic qualifications, IB DP students often have limited access to the social capital needed to navigate college course selection and access faculty support — related
• School test score averages are strongly related to the income of the families a school serves — related
• Students' grades are a more important predictor of college enrollment than ACT scores, which mainly constrain the selectivity of colleges attended — related