Local Schools and ACT Scores

Posted August 14th, 2008 at 01:41 PM by IlliniPundit Regardless of how one feels about testing, it's certainly better to beat the national average: According to data released by ACT, the makers of the same-named test of college readiness, the average ACT score of a student in Illinois is 20.7 of 36 possible. But in Urbana, Champaign, St. Joseph-Ogden and several other high schools, the averages surpass the state's. In Urbana, for at least the eight years that Principal Laura Taylor has records, students have scored higher than the state average. This year, the class of 2008 averaged 21 – the same as the national average for the test, and a score she attributes to the school's "very strong college-prep curriculum." Taylor said the school did not yet have an average score for the incoming seniors in the class of 2009, but would... [read full story]