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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

WV ACT scores 2007

Here are how West Virginia high school students scored on the ACT test this year, compared with kids in other states.

We're doing okay in English, but we have some work to do in math, as you can see. Also, it appears we have fewer kids taking the ACT relative to the rest of the USA. That can be because our school-age population is steady or stagnant while that of the rest of the nation is growing. But that's just my initial theory.