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AP scores

88.3% of AP tests scored 3 or better in SY2025, the highest of 19 years; the lowest was 62.1% in SY2009.

AP tests scoring three or better
Share of tests
SY200776.9%
SY200879%
SY200962.1%
SY201069.5%
SY201183.4%
SY201274.1%
SY201374.5%
SY201476.8%
SY201577.3%
SY201666.7%
SY201764.7%
SY201867.8%
SY201978.8%
SY202080%
SY202176.3%
SY202278.9%
SY202375.8%
SY202487%
SY202588.3%

DESE’s AP performance file, all subjects: a share of tests, not of students.

1 · The facts

  • 88.3%

    of tests scored 3 to 5, SY2025

  • 75.8%

    of tests scored 3 to 5, SY2023

  • 62.1%

    of tests scored 3 to 5, SY2009, the lowest

  • 154

    tests scored, SY2025

  • 28

    tests scoring 5, SY2025

  • 2

    tests scoring 1, SY2025

2 · What it shows

  1. 1

    88.3% of tests scored 3 or better in SY2025, the highest of 19 published years.

  2. 2

    The lowest was 62.1% in SY2009; two years before SY2025 it was 75.8%.

  3. 3

    It is a share of tests, not students: one who sits three exams counts three times.

AP test scores at Lunenburg High, by school year
YearTestsScored 5Scored 13 or better
SY202515428288.3%
SY202416236287.0%
SY202316519875.8%
SY2022152301178.9%
SY202116924776.3%
SY202015035580.0%
SY201918933378.8%
SY2018214211467.8%
SY2017187202064.7%
SY201619527866.7%
SY201521129977.3%
SY201420336376.8%
SY201318420474.5%
SY201217434574.1%
SY201115736883.4%
SY2010131222269.5%
SY2009103171162.1%
SY200810016479.0%
SY20079116476.9%

DESE’s AP performance file, all subjects. A score of 3 is the usual threshold for college credit.

Sources

What changed

Version 15 — updated September 20, 2026