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.
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American International School of Jeddah (AISJ)
Leaders at the American International School of Jeddah (AISJ) share how Pre-AP courses provided equitable access to rigorous coursework that prepared all scholars at the school for AP courses and beyond.
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Bloom Township High School District 206
Cynthia Gonzales, director of College Career Readiness and Interventions, shares her district’s experience with Pre-AP as a way to encourage consistency, given the high student mobility rate.
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Cabot Freshman Academy
Leaders at the Cabot Pubic School District and the Cabot Freshman Academy share how Pre-AP has encouraged student collaboration and critical thinking in their 9th-grade students, as well as teacher co-planning.
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Highland High School District
Melinda Murphy, a school principal, shares her district’s experience with Pre-AP as a way to provide consistency across courses so that, no matter the teacher, students in the same course would have access to the same learning outcomes.
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Jubilee Christian Academy
School leaders share how thoughtful preparation (for students, teachers, and parents) coupled with cross-grade planning led to immediate benefits for students and laid the foundation for successful implementation of Pre-AP® across grades 7-10.
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North East Carolina Prep
Phillip Lampron, a school principal, shares how the Pre-AP focus on grade-level work, engaging shared principles, and connections to Advanced Placement® (AP) helped students succeed.
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.
