INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The St. Francis College Brooklyn Athletics Department had nine of its 17 sport groups earn a multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) at or above the national average within its respective sport as announced by the NCAA on Tuesday afternoon.
All 17 of St. Francis' sport groups recorded scores above the NCAA standard of 930. Six sport groups tallied APRs above 990, and five others scored between 970 and 989. The six over 990 are men's swimming and diving (990), men's tennis (990), men's water polo (995), women's basketball (995), women's swimming and diving (994), and women's volleyball (995). The five in the 970-989 range are men's golf (987), women's bowling (983), women's cross country (972), women's golf (983), and women's tennis (978).
Annually, the NCAA honors select Division I sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest multiyear NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR). This announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports. Specifically, these teams posted multiyear APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads in each sport. The scores required to be in the top 10 ranged from 983 to a perfect 1,000, depending on the sport. The most recent APRs are multiyear rates based on scores from the 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years.
The APR, created to provide more of a real-time measurement of academic success than graduation rates offer, is a team-based metric in which scholarship student-athletes earn 1 point each term for remaining eligible and 1 point for staying in school or graduating. Schools that don't offer scholarships track their recruited student-athletes.
The APR is calculated as follows:
- Each student-athlete receiving athletically related financial aid earns one point for staying in school and one point for being academically eligible.
- A team's total points are divided by points possible and then multiplied by 1,000 to equal the team's Academic Progress Rate.
- In addition to a team's current-year APR, its rolling four-year APR is also used to determine accountability.
Teams must earn a four-year average APR of 930 to compete in championships.
