PARIS – Her freshman year of high school, Samantha Brown took a look at the English curriculum she would be studying her sophomore year.

She had already read every book on the list.

She was able to test into an Advanced Placement Composition class to substitute.

Now in her senior year at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, she has earned 21 credit hours toward her college career. After this year, she would have taken six Advanced Placement classes and is taking one college course.

Brown is one of three students who qualified for an AP Scholar with Honor Award. Two former OHCHS students, Catherine Daggett and Seth Fogg, also earned the award. They have since graduated, said Paul Bickford, director of the school’s guidance office, and have moved on to four-year colleges.

To qualify for this award, students had to have an average grade of 3.25 on all AP exams taken and grades of three or higher on four or more of the exams, according to information from the school.

In addition, five students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams with grades of three or higher, according to information from the school. The students, Molly Dew, Heather Hastings, Daniel Moberg, Kirsten Petroska and Caitlin Stauder, have all graduated and moved on to four-year colleges, Bickford said.

AP classes are taught in the high school but present college-level material, Bickford said. Upon completion of the course, students take a test. Depending on their score, they may earn college credit.

OHCHS offers between 10 and 12 of these courses each year, most open to juniors and seniors, Bickford said. Subjects include calculus, chemistry, two English classes, two history classes, physics and French.

Some students take AP classes because of the weighted grade scale, which gives them a boost in their GPA for good grades, Brown said, however: “I’ve been impressed with the amount of people taking them for the subject matter, not for the grades.”

Brown said she plans to go to college next year and study social sciences. Though she hasn’t determined where yet, some of her choices are: Brown University, Boston College, Dartmouth College, Colgate University and the University of Vermont.