Area school districts got some good news last week with the release of state ACT scores.
The ACT is a college-entrance exam which measures a student’s readiness in the core subjects of English, math, science and social studies. Most colleges use the score as criteria for admittance and scholarships.
Based on the results, all four of our area schools are doing a better job preparing students for college than they did the year before, and all of them are also doing better than the national average.
Leading the way is Immaculatta, which had a composite score of 24.1, which would rank among the highest in the Kansas City area, though the results of all schools were not released. The composite score is an average of the individual scores from all the students who took the test at that high school.
Pleasant Ridge seniors showed the biggest improvement. The school scored a 23, up from an 19.9 the previous year.
Lansing also showed significant improvment on already good test scores, going 22.8 to 23.9.
And Leavenworth showed more signs of its progress by improving its score from 21.1 to 21.7, the highest score in the last five years in the district.
Overall, the scores demonstrate that our schools are doing a very good of getting our college-ready students prepared for the next level, and that our community is blessed with a lot of above average students.
