<p>I was talking to one of my AP teachers the other day about why we don't have more AP classes (we have around 10) and why they aren't offered earlier.</p>
<p>He told me that most schools are run like this, and that sophomores and freshmen do not have the academic maturity to handle AP classes.
In addition, he also said that schools that have more than, say, 15 AP classes are only schools that are incredibly rich, or privately funded.</p>
<p>Our school has something around 12 AP classes. The only ones you can take freshman/Sophomore year are Studio Art, Chemistry and Spanish. Studio Art and Spanish being that you qualify for them due to ability. Chemistry can be taken sophomore year, but the sophomore class generally does extremely poorly in Chem. I’m in it as a senior with a class of 30. There were 6 A’s, 2 of which went to sophomores. There are like 20 of them in there. It isn’t that they’re dumb, they’re just a little young and aren’t used to real studying, thus they lack the maturity to succeed in that AP class. That’s why you generally don’t qualify until you’re an upperclassman.</p>
<p>I don’t think most schools don’t allow 9/10th graders to take AP classes. My school doesn’t allow 9th graders to take any, but 10th graders can take them.</p>
<p>We don’t generally allow people to take APs before junior year. At my school it is simply because they want you to go through honors/develop a strong work ethic/foundation before you go into AP. It varies a lot from school to school though.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t have any for ninth or tenth graders</p>
<p>My school only has 11 APs. It was 10, but AP Psych is being added next year, making it 11. Pretty sure freshmen can’t take any, and sophomores can only take AP Euro (Up until this year, only IB-MYP sophomores could take this, but some of the non-IB honors kids were able to take it) and AP Bio.</p>
<p>My school has like 20+ aps but we are in LAUSD which is freakin poor
Keep in mind AP languages can be taken anytime due to the fact some middle schools offered spanish
9th grade 1 ap: human geography
10th grade used to be 1 ap: world or european history but now they are allowing sophmore to take ap chemistry, my counselor told me it was an experiemnt</p>
<p>AP US History at my school begins next year and is for sophomores ONLY. </p>
<p>All the others (we have four this year but will have seven next year) are for juniors and seniors, mostly seniors. </p>
<p>“sophomores and freshmen do not have the academic maturity to handle AP classes.”</p>
<p>This isn’t true, but I would argue that it should be…I mean, they’re supposed to be college-level classes. If lots of high school freshmen of average intelligence can succeed in them, they’re probably not challenging enough.</p>
<p>My school has 13 AP classes and 9th graders are not able to take any AP classes. 10th graders can take AP classes, though. In the case of my school, I think I would agree with your teacher regarding the Academic Maturity. To be quite honest, I’m not sure that I will do well in the AP class that I’m taking next year, AP European History. We’ll see, I guess.</p>
<p>At my school the 9th and 10th grade do honors and then AP their junior and senior year. The only exception to this rule is AP stats which they can take in 10th grade. We offer almost all of them, about 23 I believe. I just know there are a lot. Of course I go to a very rich school that the government supports nicely. We are either the richest or second richest school district in my state.</p>
<p>That is primarily true. </p>
<p>The only exceptions usually are AP Human Geography (typically a freshman course but relatively few schools offer this), AP European and AP World History (typically taken by sophomores). The rest are typically considered junior and senior classes.</p>
<p>When was 20+ APs considered POOR? My school only has 5 and since my school screws up in scheduling, technically you can only take 2 APs per year</p>
<p>My school has 4, 1 is available to juniors, the others are senior-only.</p>
<p>My school has 27 AP classes. It probably is the richest school in the county. Some freshmen have taken AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Human Geography, and AP U.S. Government. Sophomores can take AP Computer Science A, AP Chemistry, AP World History, AP U.S. History, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, & AP Comparative Government.</p>
<p>“Is it true that most schools do not have any AP classes in 9th or 10th grade?”</p>
<p>ummm… YEEAAAAH!!!</p>
<p>of course… srsly… my school has none</p>
<p>Mine only has 4, and none of them are available to freshmen or sophomores.</p>
<p>My school only has one AP available to sophomores, and maybe around 20 for juniors/seniors.</p>
<p>Just Enviro and Human Geo for sophs, and you have to use an elective for them. (Many take Enviro, but I chose research. So worth it. Neuro research this summer 
).</p>
<p>My school has almost every AP class and IB classes too. You can take AP US Gov in 10th grade (US Gov is a requirement to graduate) or now they’ve started letting people taking US Gov in 9th grade and APUSH as a sophomore. Other then that, you can do what you want junior ad senior year. The only exception is if you’re in a high enough level to take A
P earlier (i.e precalc in 9th grade, AP Calc sophomore year or AP foreign language as a 10th grader). AP Lang is sometimes allowed for sophomores who are super strong in English though. My friend did get an exception and took honors US in 9th grade and then both APUSH and AP US Gov as a sophomore.</p>
<p>Well, the school doesn’t have to offer. Some AP classes are so easy that you could self-study them and get easy 5s. In freshmen year, I suggest taking AP Human Geography.</p>