- AP Schools with 25% growth in AP student participation from May 2019 to May 2020 and a minimum of 25 testing in May 2019

AP STEM School
- Schools with a minimum of five students testing in at least four AP STEM courses (AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C, AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles)

AP STEM Achievement School
- AP STEM schools (see above definition) with at least 50 percent of all AP STEM exams earning scores of 3 or higher