As nicoledad already mentioned, College Board's AP website will give you the official info on the various AP classes. As polarbear and Dude pointed out, you need to get relevant comparisons on the various offerings from the actual school your DDs will attend next year. For example, at DS/DD's school, the "average" and "slow" students are in the "honors" courses because all the bright kids are in "GT" or AP classes; while the district still has standard core classes at many (most?) of the high schools, our particular high school has eliminated the standard courses in English, Science and Social Studies. The only exception I see is in math. My point being beware the label and consider it in context.
