Increasing Awareness, Access

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Increasing Awareness, Access Success for
College Readiness Retention Moderator Dr.
Pete Bavis Assistant Superintendent for
Curriculum Instruction Evanston Township High
School District 202 - Evanston, IL Greg
Darnieder Senior Advisor to the Secretary on
College Access U.S. Department of Education Beth
A. Arey College Career Coordinator Evanston
Township High School District 202 - Evanston,
IL Dale G. Leibforth AP Recruitment Retention
Coordinator Evanston Township High School
District 202 - Evanston, IL
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ETHS School Profile
September, 2012 Total Enrollment
3,155 Low-Income 41 Asian 4.0 Black or
African American 30.5 Hispanic/Latino
15.5 Multi-Racial 5.3 White 44.2 College
Bound (Class of 2012) 72 2 Year Colleges 16 4
Year Colleges 55
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• Its never too early!
• K-16 partnerships
• Goals
• Academics
• Careers
• Financial aid
• Campus exposure
• Transition
• School-wide/city-wide coordination

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Traditional College Readiness Predictors
Grades Achievement Tests College Matriculation
Predictors Application Completion FAFSA
Completion Secondary Course Placement Post-Seconda
ry Course Placement
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College Success Research Hargrove, L., Godin,
D., Dodd, B. (2007) College Outcomes and the AP
Experience Does the AP Grade 2 Matter? Paper
presentation at American Educational Research
Association, April 2007, Chicago, IL. Keng, L.,
Dodd, B. (2007) An Investigation of College
Performance of AP and Non-AP Student Groups.
Paper presentation at American Educational
Research Association, April 2007, Chicago,
IL. Bowen, W.G., Chignos, M.M., McPherson,
M.S. (2009) Crossing the Finish Line Completing
College at Americas Public Universities.
Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press.
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• College Success Research Outcomes
• An AP exam score of 2 correlates with better
  college performance than students who did not
  take an AP course or took the course and skipped
  the exam.
• An AP exam score of 2 had higher four-year
  graduation rates than AP courses alone, and other
  non-AP courses.
• AP students had higher first-year and
  fourth-year GPAs than those who did not take AP
  courses in high school.

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ETHS Total Number of AP Scores Grade 3 or Higher
2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
1026 1008 1253
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Percent of Students Proficient (3 or higher) on
AP Exams
65 in 2011 70 in
2012 1800 AP Exams was the most ever for ETHS.
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• Restructuring of Freshman Year Earned Honors
• Increasing Access Success in AP Committee
• Pathways to AP Forum/Pathways Documents
• 27 AP Classes in 6 Departments
• Adding new AP courses

FORUM
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team Access Success in Advanced Placement

• Monthly Meetings
• Mentoring
• Tutoring
• Leadership
• Inform, Inspire Encourage
• Story Videos
• Fish Bowl

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AP Summer Bridge Courses
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• AMAPS AM AP Support
• Targeted Review Sessions
• Review Book Drive
• I GOT THIS Pencils
• Support Resource Website - tinyurl.com/teamasap

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The work continues
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Dr. Pete Bavis Assistant Superintendent for
Curriculum and Instruction bavisp_at_eths.k12.il.us
Greg Darnieder Senior Advisor to the Secretary on
College Access U.S. Department of Education Beth
A. Arey College Career Coordinator areyb_at_eths.k1
2.il.us www.eths.k12.il.us/ccc Dale G.
Leibforth AP Recruitment Retention
Coordinator ETHSAP_at_eths202.org tinyurl.com/teamasa
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