The Wake County school system is touting that the district's high school juniors are outperforming the state and the state's other large districts on the ACT exam.
In a press release today, Wake notes that the composite ACT score for the district's juniors this past school year was 20.3 That compares to an average score of 18.2 for the state, 18.4 for Winston-Salem Forsyth, 18.3 for Charlotte-Mecklenburg, 18.0 for Guilford, 17.7 for Durham and 17.2 for Cumberland County.
Wake is also touting that it had a higher percentage of juniors meeting each of the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks when compared to the state as a whole, and to other large North Carolina school districts.
This was the first year the state required all high school juniors to take the ACT exam. Click here to view a statewide report that was published today by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
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Well, Wake beat out the
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 18:39 — DrActualFactualWell, Wake beat out the other counties so we may on average be better than the rest but consider: 2012 class for NCSU ACT scores ranged 24-29 and 51% of their students are in the top 10% of their HS class. For UNC-CH the ACT composite for the incoming class was 28-32% and 80% of this year's incoming freshmen were in the top 10% of their class; 7% were Valedictorians and 5% Salutatorians; 18% were 1st generation college students. In the end, mostly top scoring students get into the two top NC schools; an ACT of 20 may not get you into either university unless you meet one of their other criterias...Just sayin. Message, don't quit studying yet.
Recent experience
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 19:28 — Dove314In our recent experience, you are giving NC public universities far too much credit for intelligence and sorting abilities. Need to factor in a large dose of bureaucracy and random foolishness. It is a bit of a wonder that anyone gets to the point of being enrolled with Moodle.
Amazing...
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:20 — bpuli9999side-effects of the choice plan. Looks like there is a direct correlation betwenn parental school choice and junior ACT scores. I am sure JT's campaign is coming up with some way of taking credit for this.
WCPSS was award winning...
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 18:00 — uBniceschool district long before Tata and Tedesco got here. How is it that you can say that this could in any way be attributable to the choice plan?
The only way you could believe that is that you discount its past success, which was tremendous.
That was...
Sun, 09/16/2012 - 09:52 — bpuli9999sarcasm.
Ok.
Sun, 09/16/2012 - 10:35 — uBniceSorry, I missed it. :-)
LOL, I think the distinction
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 18:46 — woodstockLOL, I think the distinction is WCPSS under Tata's leadership is now winning awards for achievement and success instead of bogus paid-for awards that touted irrelevant things like Wake's busing for "diversity" nonsense.
What awards...
Sun, 09/16/2012 - 09:53 — bpuli9999specifically? From Civitas? or the tea party? or Susan Bryant? Or are these ones that they are buying as loriac suggests in the post below?
'award winning'What awards?
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 18:22 — loriac'award winning'
What awards? The stupid Cube award they paid for, and spent untold staff hours to write up the 40 page application?
Or magnet awards, when whole nodes weren't even eligible to attend? Those were dark days.
I find it interesting that
Sat, 09/15/2012 - 10:09 — woodstockI find it interesting that so many feel compelled to comment on a temporary busing challenge, but there is so little comment on what is clearly a success in terms of academic achievement as illustrated by the state-leading ACT scores... and that is even with a record number of students taking the test. Kudos to Superintendent Tata and WCPSS staff for creating such a positive learning environment for our children. Outstanding!!
Must be due to the new
Fri, 09/14/2012 - 19:58 — mnordbergMust be due to the new assignment plan :)