Education

More About 2015 Alabama Student Test Scores

The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama and Alabama School Connection have taken deeper looks at recently-released tests of the state’s student academic performance.

PARCA assessed results from Alabama high school juniors on the ACT college readiness test. Only 16 percent of them were “ready” on all four sections of the test: English, Reading, Mathematics and Science. PARCA considers factors affecting the 2015 scores and concludes: “Alabama has significant room to grow in producing high school graduates who are ready for success in college.”

The PARCA report dealt only with the test for high school juniors. But the “significant room to grow” conclusion applies to the huge body of results from the ACT Aspire test given in grades three through eight. The Alabama Department of Education is using this ACT-connected test in an effort to track students’ progress toward being college-ready.

Alabama School Connection has an extensive report on ACT Aspire results.

You can check your city’s school system and your child’s school; you can check by grade and subject; you can see a full list of school systems and test results.

PARCA’s report gives results from soon-to-graduate students by subject and in comparison to other states.