<p>My school only offers AP classes that are combined with Dual Enrollment classes. So, for example, in my government class the course title is AP/Dual and some of the kids want to take the AP test and others just want the Dual Enrollment credit. My school swears that this is the way other schools do it. How do your schools organize Dual Enrollment and AP classes?</p>
<p>My daughter attends a largish public high school and the AP and dual classes are separate. You have to go through an admissions process for the cc to enroll in dual, but most of the dual and AP classes are pretty equivalent. A small school might not be able to offer them separately, since often I think we have a total of about 3-4 sections for a given subject. I don’t think it makes that much difference as usually they are covering pretty similar material.</p>
<p>At my school, dual enrollment means taking a college course on a college campus for both high school and college credit. AP classes are offered on the high school campus.</p>
<p>My school is like halcyonheather’s school, dual enrollment classes are taken on a college campus and the school does not offer transportation or pay for the classes.</p>
<p>My school is like yours. It’s a fairly small school, and they don’t have enough interest / available teachers to offer classes separately. AP Language, AP Literature, AP Chemistry, AP Statistics, AP Calculus, and AP US Government students have the option of taking the AP Exam or receiving credit from the local CC via a program called College Now. The College Now students are in the same class as AP students, at the same time, with the same teacher, using the same curriculum. Most students at my school prefer College Now credit, so the classes are geared towards the CC curriculum but the official title is AP, not DE. There are few AP classes that don’t have equivalent college now offerings (Chem, Bio, Physics, Psych, US History, Studio Art, Music Theory) and a few college classes with no AP offered at our school (College Algebra, Spanish IV and V, French III and IV). </p>
<p>So no, your school isn’t an anomaly. It’s pretty common in medium-sized schools in my area (the bigger schools have the resources to offer them separately, the small schools don’t have resources to have them at all sometimes).</p>