The College Board released its third annual analysis of its AP program Tuesday in a report titled “Advanced Placement Report to the Nation: 2007,” and gave some of its highest marks to Maryland schools.

The study ranked Maryland second only to New York in the percentage of high school students scoring at mastery levels on the Advanced Placement exams. In New York, 22.7 percent of all their graduating seniors had scored a 3, 4 or 5 on at least one AP exam, indicating subject mastery, just ahead of the 22 percent total for Maryland.