9th–12th Grade

Milwaukee Marshall High School

9th–12th Grade

Milwaukee Marshall High School

9th–12th Grade

Milwaukee Marshall High School

Advanced Placement

Milwaukee Marshall High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement (AP) classes, allowing motivated students to pursue a rigorous, college-level academic curriculum while still in high school.

Students take classes taught by Marshall staff, then show their understanding through post-course exams that can result in college credit. Along the way, they improve their writing skills, sharpen their problem-solving techniques, and develop consistent study habits that will serve them well in postsecondary programs.

Benefits

AP classes stand out on college applications. Transcripts that include AP courses show that students have challenged themselves with the most rigorous courses available. Success in AP courses indicates that they are ready for and will be successful in college-level coursework.

Successful exams earn college credit and/or allow students to skip introductory college courses. Most four-year colleges and universities in the United States (and many abroad) recognize the rigor of AP classes. Students can get credit, place out of required classes, or both for qualifying AP Exam scores.

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Available Courses

AP Biology

AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students explore topics like evolution, cellular processes, energy and communication, genetic information transfer, ecology, and interactions.

AP Chemistry

AP Chemistry is an introductory college-level chemistry course. Students study atomic and molecular structure, chemical reactions, kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics.

AP English Language and Composition

AP English Language and Composition is an introductory college-level composition course. Students understand rhetorical arguments through reading, analyzing, and writing their own. They learn about rhetorical situations, claims and evidence, reasoning and organization, and style.

AP English Literature and Composition

AP English Literature and Composition is an introductory college-level literary analysis course. Students read and analyze texts to explore concepts like character, setting, structure, perspective, figurative language, and literary analysis in the context of literary works.

AP Human Geography

AP Human Geography is an introductory college-level human geography course. Students use data and geographic analyses to study patterns and spatial organization, human impacts and interactions with their environment, and spatial processes and societal changes.

AP Psychology

AP Psychology introduces students to the systematic and scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. While considering the studies that have shaped the field, students explore and apply psychological theories, key concepts, and phenomena associated with major units of study, including biological bases of behavior, cognition, development, learning, social psychology, personality, and mental and physical health. Throughout the course, students apply psychological concepts and employ psychological research methods and data interpretation to evaluate claims, consider evidence, and effectively communicate ideas.

AP U.S. Government and Politics

AP U.S. Government and Politics is an introductory college-level course in U.S. government and politics. Students learn by analyzing data and text-based sources. They focus on constitutionalism, liberty and order, civic participation in a representative democracy, competing policy-making interests, and methods of political analysis.

AP U.S. History

AP U.S. History is an introductory college-level U.S. history course. Covering c. 1491 CE to the present, the course involves analyzing historical sources, making connections, and crafting historical arguments. Students deepen their understanding of national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.