Why Choose Pre-AP Courses?
Pre-AP courses provide grade-level resources that build skills for success in AP, college, and careers.
The Benefits of Pre-AP Courses
Pre-AP courses have flexible course frameworks that empower students to work at their grade level while preparing them for future AP classes, college coursework, and career aspirations. All Pre-AP courses have been back mapped from AP courses and help students build a strong foundation of knowledge and important skills, like critical thinking.
What Pre-AP Courses Are
- Pre-AP courses provide a focused framework, instructional support, model lessons, and classroom assessments.
- Pre-AP courses give all students the opportunity to grow and develop skills for success in AP classes, college coursework, and careers.
- All courses have been back mapped from AP courses, with input from teachers in middle school, high school, and colleges.
What Pre-AP Courses Are Not
- Although Pre-AP courses provide robust instructional support, they are not a curriculum.
- Pre-AP courses are not honors courses—they meet students where they are.
- Pre-AP courses don’t have a culminating assessment and they don't provide college credit.
Pre-AP Courses Motivate Students
Pre-AP courses give students the tools they need to think for themselves, defend arguments, and solve real-world problems. All Pre-AP courses share common language and strategies so interdisciplinary skills are continually reinforced. And because Pre-AP courses are back mapped from AP courses, students get a head start on the skills and content needed to succeed in AP.
Pre-AP Courses Empower Teachers
Pre-AP respects teachers’ knowledge of their subject—and their students. Teachers receive instructional support, model lessons, performance tasks, and access to a question bank to make their own quizzes. Teachers have the flexibility to design their own instruction based on the course framework.
Prepare More Students with Free Pre-AP Courses
For the 2026-27 school year, all Pre-AP courses will be available at no cost to schools that offer specific AP courses in certain grades.
Pre-AP Reach
In the 2021-22 school year, Pre-AP was offered in nearly every state and over 25 countries, creating opportunities for students who come from a multitude of backgrounds. For both math and evidence-based reading and writing, Pre-AP students were more likely to meet SAT benchmarks, which indicates college and career readiness at each grade level.
Success Stories
Research shows that even students who start the year below grade-level can close the gap with Pre-AP instruction. Learn how real schools have seen success by implementing Pre-AP courses.
Online Learning Module
Experience Pre-AP Virtually
Through a free and interactive online professional learning module, you can explore what makes a Pre-AP classroom so special.
