Missouri students continue to slip in how prepared they are for college. Pat Curtis with Missourinet files this report.
Missouri’s 2018 graduating class earned an average composite score of 20 out of a possible 36 on their ACT test. The exam is used to help determine how prepared students are for college. According to the ACT organization, 22% of Missouri graduates met all four ACT college readiness benchmarks in 2018, compared to 23% in 2017 and 29% of 2014 graduates.
In math, 33% of 2018 graduates met the college readiness benchmark, 56% met the English benchmark and 41% reached the Reading benchmark.
The data also shows the racial gap in student achievement continues with most of the scores based on ethnicity being slightly lower from the previous year.
Eighty-two Missouri students received a perfect score.
