Latest Headlines
- Cantonment Rotary Provides Thanksgiving Meals For 1,250 North Escambia Residents (With Photo Gallery)
- Miracle League Holds Annual Turkey Fry (With Photo Gallery)
- Jerry Davis Receives Florida Farm Bureau’s Highest Service Award
- Kitten Rescued From Drainage Pipe
- Jim Allen Elementary Names Students Of The Month
- The Ensley Chiefs Are Now The Ensley Hurricanes
- Homicide Suspect Surrenders At County Jail
- AAA Urges Thanksgiving Drivers To Ensure Their Vehicle Is Ready For The Road
- Traffic Stop Leads To Two Arrests On Drug Charges
- Farm-City: Volunteers Harvest Thanksgiving Dinner For 1,000 Needy Families (With Gallery)
2009 ACT Scores Released; Northview Shows Improvement
August 23, 2009
Florida’s class of 2009 scored worse on the ACT college entrance exam than seniors last year, while Northview High School showed a full half point increase.
Across Florida, scores released Wednesday showed the class of 2009 had an average 19.5 on the college entrance exam, .03 points less than last year’s average. The national average was 21.2. Only students in Kentucky, Mississippi and the District of Colombia scored lower than the 62 percent of Florida’s graduates — 105,297 students — that took the test.
Just over half of 106 seniors at Northview High School took the 2009 ACT during their high school careers; the 56 students had an average composite score of 19.4. The top composite score in Escambia County was 20.4 at West Florida Tech and Washington High Schools. Tate High had a composite score of 20.2. Northview scored better than Pine Forest High (18.2) and almost as well as Escambia (19.5).
Northview’s 19.4 composite score for the class of 2009 was an improvement over the 18.9 composite earned by the class of 2008.
The 2009 composite score at Jay High School was 19.6, the lowest composite of any regular high school in Santa Rosa County. The 2008 composite at Jay was 20.0.
Comments
3 Responses to “2009 ACT Scores Released; Northview Shows Improvement”
Gulf Breeze was impressive
The scores are for the class of 2009. They could have taken the ACT earlier than their senior year.
Our daughter is a Senior this year at Northview and will be in the graduating class of 2010. According to her, she says that many of the Senior students take their ACT their Sophmore and Junior year and if they score high enough to their satisfaction, they don’t take it their Senior year. I know of one student who is a senior this year and has already taken the ACT and has scored a 31 on it and their are many more who have scored almost as high, if not the same or higher.
So what happens to those who take and score well on the ACT before their Senior year? Are we saying that their score doesn’t factor into the composite score for the overall Northview Senior class because it wasn’t taken their “Senior year”?
If so, then in my opinion, it’s no wonder the scores at Northview and other area schools are lower than what is acedemically and politically correct.