Advanced Placement (AP) Courses
All daytime Garland ISD high schools offer advanced placement courses in a wide variety of subjects. Students enrolled in these college-level courses may take an examination in the spring, the results of which are used by many colleges and universities to award college credit.
"The AP Program challenges students, rewards their achievements, eases the transition to college, and may ease the financial burden of college," according to Wade Curry, AP Program Director.
Students who complete AP courses are:
- better prepared academically
- more likely to specialize in stringent majors
- more likely to complete more college work in four (4) years
- found to perform slightly better than peers who did not take AP courses
- more likely to exercise leadership
- twice as likely to go into advanced study (Ph.D., medicine, law)
The cost of an AP exam is small compared to the average cost per course in public or private universities. We encourage you to consider enrolling in one or more of the many GISD AP courses which give you an opportunity to pursue college-level studies while still in high school.
Advanced Placement courses offered include:
Computer Literacy
- Computer Science II
Language Arts
- English IV Language and Composition
- English Literature and Composition
Foreign Language
- French IV
- French V
- German IV
- Latin IV
- Spanish IV
- Spanish V
Mathematics
- Calculus
- Probability and Statistics
Science
- Chemistry
- Environmental Science
- Physics
- Biology
Social Studies
- United States History
- United States Government
- Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and its Benefits
- European History
- Psychology
- World History
Fine Arts
- General Art Portfolio
- History of Art
- Music Theory II (GHS)
- Music Theory/Literature (GHS)
Questions about Garland ISD Advanced Placement programming may be directed to Dr. Barbara Mason, Executive Director for School Improvement.
If you are an AP instructor or a student from a district other than Garland ISD (Texas) looking for information about AP courses, we recommend contacting the Advanced Placement division of the Educational Testing Service.
If you are seeking on-line AP classes, there are several companies offering this service. At this time, Garland ISD is not one of them, however. As board policy prohibits commercial endorsements, we cannot provide links to these companies.