Low ACT Scores For Hawaii Grads
The college preparatory test company says the state ranks near the bottom with Nevada, Mississippi and South Carolina.
on ACT scores for high school graduates, and Hawaii doesn’t do well.
“The lowest composite score was 17.7 by students in Nevada. Mississippi, South Carolina and Hawaii also notched average scores below 19,” says the company that produces the college preparatory test.
Students in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire scored highest.
Generally, students in the Northeast of the country scored highest on the ACT, while those in the South and West “lag behind.”
The ACT is administered to high school juniors and seniors across the country,” says The Hill. “Nearly 2.1 million students — about 64 percent of the graduating class of 2016 — took the ACT last year, the company said.”
