Advanced Course Completion

This report shows the number and rate of Massachusetts public school students in grades 11 and 12 who completed advanced coursework since 2018.

Advanced coursework includes the following: Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, Project Lead the Way, dual enrollment courses, Chapter 74-approved vocational/technical secondary cooperative education programs, and other selected rigorous courses. For a full list of advanced coursework, please see the <a href="https://www.doe.mass.edu/accountability/lists-tools/advanced-courses.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">List of Advanced Courses for Accountability Reporting</a> on the <a href="https://www.doe.mass.edu/accountability/lists-tools" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Accountability Lists, Materials, and Tools</a> website.

Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the <a href="https://www.doe.mass.edu/research/researchers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DESE Researcher's Guide</a> for more information.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:

<a href="https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/advcoursecomprate.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Advanced Course Completion Report</a>

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"educationtocareer-data-mass-gov/advanced-course-completion-ujwr-ux9i\".\"advanced_course_completion\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.