“But, we also know that many high school students will miss out on the reforms targeted at the early grades and can’t wait for us to figure out college and career readiness in the distant future”. That compares to the national average of 20.8.
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Norfolk Public Schools students’ 2016 ACT composite score of 21.5 lands just above the state average composite score of 21.4. In Iowa, 10 students scored a 36.
The average composite score for Dakota Valley students in 2016 was 22.8.
With 100 percent of 2016 graduating seniors participating, Missouri students scored an average of 20.2 and IL students scored an average of 20.8 out of 36.
“I’m extremely proud of our students and staff for continuing to lead the state in ACT scores”, Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden said.
Ohio, where about 73 percent of seniors take the test, had a higher composite score of 22.0.
Standardized test scores typically decline when the number of test takers goes up. “We are going to strive to do better and make adjustments and grow”, said CHS Principal Steve Woodside.
Christian County High School scores dropped in English, reading and science, but stayed the same in math. This is up from the 3,988 students who took the test a year ago, which amounted to about 55 percent of graduating students, and the 3,663 students who took the ACT in 2014. The national standardized test is the most-used college entrance exam in the country.
Carencro High School trails the state’s average composite score by 2 points and lags behind the state in subject area tests and the percentage of students ready for college-level work. “Because you have instead of a sample of the data you have a complete data, you really can’t compare that composite score from last year to the composite score this year”. Of the 60 students who took the ACT, 57 were also part of the “core or more” preparation.
In 2015, Georgia ranked 28th in the nation in ACT scores, and the state ranked 30th in 2014. Nevada tested 32,261 students in the graduating Class of 2016, up from about 9,308 before the test was mandatory and free.
The higher percentage of students failing to hit those benchmarks can be explained in large part, the organization said, by the addition this year of seven more states that funded the ACT for all 11th-graders as part of their statewide testing programs.
In science, 33 percent of West Virginia students were ready, compared to a national average of 36 percent.
“There’s about 18 states that test at 100% of their students graduating”.
Bluegrass Institute analysis of the new data indicates that across all student groups – public, private and home school combined – the achievement gaps in English and science actually were worse in 2016 than in 2013 when ACT, Inc., changed the way it reports scores.
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“Success is different for every single student but as long as they’ve tried their hardest, then they should feel good about how they did”, Payne said.
