Warren County High School currently offers 8 Advanced Placement courses. For over 50 years, the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) has partnered with colleges, universities, and high schools to provide students with the opportunity to take college-level course work and exams while still in high school. National AP website
Over 90% of 4-year colleges and universities give credit for AP courses taken if scores on the AP exams are a 3, 4, or 5; some will consider grades of 2. AP exams are given in early May of each year. The student reserves the right to have his or her scores sent to a particular college.
Prospective AP students are urged to take the PSAT test in the fall of the sophomore year.  Students whose scores on this exam fall at or above 50 will have a greater change of  achieving higher scores on the AP exams.
 

WCHS AP Class Offerings: 

Biology - Mr. Russell Prater
Prerequisites: Biology I and Chemistry

AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students cultivate their understanding of biology through inquiry-based investigations as they explore topics like evolution, energetics, information storage and transfer, and system interactions.https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-biology

English Language (Junior year) - Mrs. Whitney Dyer
Prerequisites: English II Honors is advised for the Sophomore level English course

AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students cultivate their understanding of writing and rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing texts as they explore topics like rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-language-and-composition

English Literature (Senior year) -Ms. Amy Satterwhite
Prerequisites: AP English III

AP English Literature and Composition is an introductory college-level literary analysis course. Students cultivate their understanding of literature through reading and analyzing texts as they explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, and literary analysis in the context of literary works.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition
 

Precalculus- Mrs. Lucretia Brown                                                                                                                                                                                          Prerequisites: Algebra I and Algebra II, Geometry

Do you want to figure out how quickly you’ll reach 10,000 followers on Instagram? In AP Precalculus, you’ll explore concepts such as polynomial and exponential functions that can help you calculate your rise to influencer status, and many more concepts related to functions, logarithms, and trigonometry that can be applied beyond the classroom.

https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-precalculus

Psychology - Mrs. Laura Lippe

AP Psychology is an introductory college-level psychology course. Students cultivate their understanding of the systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes through inquiry-based investigations as they explore concepts like the biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning and cognition, motivation, developmental psychology, testing and individual differences, treatment of abnormal behavior, and social psychology.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-psychology

US Government - Mr. Kevin Dunlap
Prerequisites: US History, World History or World Geography

AP U.S. Government and Politics is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students cultivate their understanding of U.S. government and politics through analysis of data and text-based sources as they explore topics like constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis.https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-government-and-politics
 

World History - Mr. Johnathan Smith

AP World History: Modern is an introductory college-level modern world history course. Students cultivate their understanding of world history from c. 1200 CE to the present through analyzing historical sources and learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-world-history

Environmental Science - Mrs. Lori Mayfield

Students cultivate their understanding of the interrelationships of the natural world through inquiry-based lab investigations and field work as they explore concepts like the four Big Ideas; energy transfer, interactions between earth systems, interactions between different species and the environment, and sustainability.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-environmental-science

WCHS AP Coordinator - Mrs. Stephanie Doak