- El Camino High
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Advanced Placement
AP Course Offerings
El Camino offers a variety of College Board approved Advanced Placement courses. AP offerings are year-long, rigorous college-level courses. At the conclusion of each AP course, students take a comprehensive examination. By earning a passing score (3, 4, or 5) on the exam, students may receive college units for each test passed.
2024 Exam Registration
Registration for the 2024 Exams is now open! As classes get underway, teachers will be informing students about the steps they must take to set up a MyAP account on the College Board website, as well as to register and pay for their AP exams. Students MUST have a MyAP account set up before registering or paying for their 2024 exams.
El Camino does NOT take payment for the AP exams. Payment is processed through APTS, an outside agency. To connect with this agency and register/pay for your 2024 AP exams, please click on the link below. Once you click on this link, steps will be provided for you to follow in order to register and complete payment for all of your exams. Prices are also included in this link.
Exam registration for 2024 exams requires two steps: activation of your exam on the College Board MyAP site by joining the AP class on MyAP, AND submission of exam fees. Both steps must be completed by October 25, 2023.
Click here to pay for AP Exams
2024 AP Exam Schedule
Free and Reduced Lunch Discount Code: Students who qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch program are eligible for a reduction to the cost of the exam.The reduction reduces the cost to $55 per exam (AP Capstone is $100 after the Free-Reduced Lunch reduction.) To receive the exam fee reduction, please contact Asst. Principal Ariana Rodriguez at ariana.rodriguez@oside.us for a Fee Reduction Code. This code will be applied to the online payment form when prompted and will reduce the cost of the exam fees. Please apply for a fee reduction code no later than October 20, 2023 to ensure timely submission of your payment.
Free and Reduced Lunch eligibility is determined during the Data Confirmation process families complete each year. To complete the LCFF Form, click here.
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Why Take an AP Course?
Why take an AP Course? Read the article here: Link
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AP Exams Overview
For an overview of AP Exams click this: Link
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About AP Scores
To learn more about AP scores, click this: Link
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Earn your AP Capstone Diploma: AP Seminar and AP Research
We now offer both capstone courses: AP Seminar and AP Research
You may be asking yourself...what is AP Seminar? What is AP Research? Is it History? Science? English? Math? Art? The answer is...a little bit of everything.
AP Seminar and AP Research are interdisciplinary courses. This means that it does not fit under any content discipline. Rather, it is a course that focuses upon the necessary skills that we need to be successful in every class in high school and beyond.
Students in Seminar will investigate topics in a variety of subject areas, write research-based reports, and design and give presentations both individually and as part of a team.
In Research, the student will select a topic and design an experiment where original data is collected, analyzed and report their findings in a paper and presentation (no traditional AP exam for this class).
Upon successful completion of both courses, students will become candidates for the prestigious AP CAPSTONE DIPLOMA. For more information about AP Seminar and/or AP Research and the Capstone Diploma, please contact tour Capstone Instructor Stephanie Gonzales, or you can visit this link at the College Board website.
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New Course: AP Spanish Literature and Culture
New for the 2022-23 School Year
The AP Spanish Literature and Culture course uses a thematic approach to introduce students to representative texts (short stories, novels, poetry, plays, and essays) from Peninsular Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic literature. Students develop proficiencies across the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational) in the range of Intermediate High to Advanced Mid of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines. Through careful examination of the required readings and other texts, students work to hone their critical reading and analytical writing skills. Literature is explored within the contexts of its time and place, and students gain insights on the many voices, historical periods, and cultures represented in the required readings and other texts. The course also includes a strong focus on cultural, artistic, and linguistic connections and comparisons, which is supported by the exploration of various media (art, music, film, articles, and literary criticism). AP Spanish Literature and Culture is equivalent to a college or university survey course of literature written in Spanish at the first level counted towards a major in this subject area.
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2024 Exam Schedule
2024 AP Exams
AP Testing will be taking place May 6 - 17. Click below for a detailed testing schedule.
2024 Exam Schedule
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AP Exam Questions
Ariana RodriguezAssistant Principal
Email(760) 901-8123Contact College Board
(866) 630-9305
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Congratulations to our ECHS Advanced Placement (AP) program for being named to the 2023 AP School Honor Roll! The AP School Honor Roll recognizes schools whose AP programs are delivering results and broadening access for students. Schools can earn the Honor Roll recognition annually based on their ability to increase their school’s college-going culture, to provide opportunities for students to earn college credit, and maximize college readiness.