Missouri ACT score is below national average, Kansas is slightly above

Graduating 2016 District 202 seniors posted their highest composite score on the ACT college entrance exam in four years as the state plans to start using the SAT college entrance exam next spring as its high school standardized test.

Looking ahead, Cassellius said that she hopes to see more underrepresented students take advantage of fee waivers to retake the test to improve their scores.

District 202 also maintained or saw slight increases in the percent of students who meet “college readiness benchmarks” in all of the core subject areas tested. In the years before the state began paying for every 11th-grader to take the test, Missouri students’ participation ranged from 71 to 77 percent of the graduating class. Statewide, 41 percent of students were “college ready” in Algebra.

Almost 2.1 million graduating seniors took the ACT, up from 1.9 million in the last school year.

Under the previous measure by which Minnesota earned acclaim – the state’s ranking among those in which at least half the graduates took the test – Iowa now ranks first with an average score of 22.1.

The district had a composite score of 20.3, the second straight year Wilson County jumped by 0.3 of a point.

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Next spring, all high school juniors will take the SAT college entrance exam.

Forty-six percent met benchmarks for College Algebra, up from 43 percent a year ago.

The average composite score of Nevada students in the Class of 2016 was 17.7 out of 36.

Kentucky has set its own “college ready” benchmarks which are lower than the national standards set by ACT, which Curl says puts students at a disadvantage. And in science, 36 percent hit the 22-point score that predicts success in an entry-level biology course.

And many students are close to meeting the test’s benchmarks, particularly in science, where 13 percent of students missed the mark by no more than two points.

Sixty-seven percent met the benchmark for College English, up from last year’s 65 percent.