Love it or hate it, educators can’t stop talking about the College Board’s ever-expanding Advanced Placement program. Today a high-school counselor unveiled a Web site called ExcellenceWithoutAP.org.

The site lists high schools (mostly private ones) that either have dropped their AP curriculum or never had it, and that do not offer the International Baccalaureate program either. In recent years, some schools have said goodbye to AP after concluding that the curriculum did not allow teachers enough flexibility — and that students reaped few, if any, benefits from AP in college.

Recently the College Board’s audit of AP programs has prompted some schools to consider dropping it, according to the site’s creator, Bruce G. Hammond, director of college counseling at Sandia Preparatory School, in Albuquerque, N.M.

The site also lists issues that may arise for such schools. “Parents are the biggest challenge to dropping AP,” says the Web site, because they “tend to overestimate how often students actually use AP credit to accelerate their college careers.” —Eric Hoover