MHS Offers Advanced Placement courses in the following areas:
AP Biology
AP English Language
AP English Literature
AP US History
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
VHS Offers Advanced Placement courses
Please check with your school counselor to ensure that a specific AP class is being offered.
Offering courses depends upon student interest and other schedule-related factors. Some students take online AP courses when their preferred subject is not provided or scheduled at MHS.
AP courses are weighted into a student's final GPA at 1.15%.
All students are expected to take the AP Exam, which is provided each May.
Exam fees
Students will register for their AP exams by November 18, 2024. AP exams cost $99 per exam.
Any late order in the system will incur an additional $50 fee. Students who drop an AP course after the November 18 deadline will have to pay the late fee of $50 if they drop prior to November 15.
If paying by check, please make the check payable to Messalonskee High School. You may mail the payment to the school, attention Guidance Office/AP fees or have your son/daughter drop it off in the Guidance Office. AP FEES CAN BE PAID INCREMENTALLY OR ALL AT ONCE (whatever is easiest). If these fees pose a hardship for you or your family, please follow up with the AP teacher and/or your student’s school counselor.
One Exam: $99
Two Exams: $198
Three Exams: $297
Reduced Cost to those who qualify for free or reduced lunch: $62 per exam
(fees as of 2024)
This is a standardized exam that is graded by a select group of educators throughout the country. Exams are scored from 1-5, 5 being the highest score.
A student's exam score is his/her property. Students can choose to forward their scores to the college of their choosing to be evaluated for college credit. Many colleges will accept a score of 3 or higher as a college course equivalent, meaning that students could automatically earn college credit by virtue of his/her AP score. An updated list of all AP college credit policies can be found here. Just type in the college and the field will populate with the different score/college credit options.
For information on AP Score policies (how to send or cancel student AP scores), please click this link.
AP Exam schedule
Please click here for the updated exam schedule
As usual, students' work will be scored by our network of college faculty and AP teachers, and will be reported on a 1–5 scale. We anticipate releasing scores as close to the usual July timeframe as possible.
We're confident that the vast majority of higher ed institutions will award college credit as they have in the past. We've spoken with hundreds of institutions across the country that support our solution for this year's AP Exams.