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Average ACT Scores by State Graduating Class 2018

2018 State Percent of ACT-Tested High School Graduates, Average

Composite Score, and Percent Meeting Benchmarks by Subject

State

Percent of

Graduates

Tested*

Average

Composite

Score

Percent

Meeting

English

Benchmark

Benchmark

Percent

Meeting

Science

Benchmark

Alabama

Nebraska

Nevada

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Tennessee

Utah

Wisconsin

Wyoming

New Mexico

Arizona

Florida

The best practice is to compare states where the same or similar percentages of graduates were tested

(e.g, Alabama 100% and South Carolina 100%; or Kansas 71% and Arizona 66%).

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2018 State Percent of ACT-Tested High School Graduates, Average

Composite Score, and Percent Meeting Benchmarks by Subject

State

Percent of

Graduates

Tested*

Average

Composite

Score

Percent

Meeting

English

Benchmark

Benchmark

Percent

Meeting

Science

Benchmark

West Virginia

District of Columbia

Indiana

Maryland

New Jersey

Colorado

California

New York

Connecticut

Massachusetts

Vermont

Rhode Island

Maine

National

* Totals for graduating seniors were obtained from Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates, 9th edition.

Copyright December 2016 by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.