Report Card Has Good, Bad News: More Grads, But Low ACT Scores
State Schools Graded, Not With A's
(CBS) -- More Illinois high school students are graduating but ACT scores remain low.
WBBM's Lisa Fielding has the latest data from the annual Illinois Report Card.
Just 24.9 percent of this year's Illinois public school graduates scored high enough on each of the ATC's four subjects to be considered prepared for college.
That's up, though, from 24.2 percent from last year -- good news to Illinois Schools Supt. Tony Smith.
"That composite score does remain slack," he tells WBBM's Lisa Fielding. "But the number of students getting to that score has increased."
The better news, he says, is that 2,000 more high school students graduated last year.
Two Chicago public high schools were at the top of the list of highest average ACT scores.
