Pre-AP

Pre-AP Breakdown

All freshmen attending Milwaukee High School of the Arts will be enrolled in Pre-Ap classes. The Pre-AP Program offers consistent, high standards in focused courses that help build, strengthen, and reinforce students’ content knowledge and skills. Pre-AP courses get students ready for AP and other college-level coursework. Pre-AP courses are designed to be the standard, baseline course in each respective subject. Pre-AP is for ALL students.

Pre-AP Shared Instructional Principles

  • Close Observation and Analysis

  • Higher-Order Questioning

  • Evidence-Based Writing

  • Academic Conversations

Pre-AP Program

Pre-AP is about achieving results for all students. Here’s how the program is designed to accomplish that.

  • Engaging resources meet students where they are.

  • Meaningful feedback shows teachers where each student needs additional support and focus.

  • Effective practice helps every student to build, strengthen, and master content knowledge and skills.

  • Flexibility in instructional resources honors the skill and authority of teachers.

  • Challenging coursework emphasizes key literacy, quantitative, and analysis skills across all five disciplines and reinforces these skills in multiple classroom experiences.

  • Open access—a program requirement—means that Pre-AP courses and their high-quality instruction and assessments will serve all students

Student Comments

“Pre-Ap classes have helped to teach me individual and group skills that will help me better prepare for a successful future”

-Alexander Eberhage, Visual Arts Major

“Pre-AP teaches advanced skills that help to make more difficult material understandable. It has been very helpful to be able to apply these skills across the different classes that I have. .”

-Amya Camberos, Visual Arts Major

Principal Message

“Pre-AP is a new program offered by the College Board. The program was developed to strengthen student’s college readiness skills to prepare them for college-level coursework. Our goal is that Pre-AP will develop the skills and confidence to succeed in Advanced Placement courses and other related college-level coursework. Students at MHSA are able to experience the rigor of Pre-AP instruction in both their core academic areas and art area majors”

-Mr. Farris, MHSA Principal


Pre-AP Contacts:

Pre-AP/AP Coordinator: Ms. Dean

Email: deansx@milwaukee.k12.wi.us