Calif. students beat the national average on ACT
By Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times
California’s graduating class of 2016 outperformed peers on the ACT college-entrance test nationally across all four subject areas, according to a report released by the test company Wednesday.
Nationwide, students had an average overall score of 20.8 out of 36 on the test of English, math, reading and science. California students, on average, earned 22.6.
Of the 127,225 California class of 2016 students who took the test, 37 percent passed benchmarks in all four subjects.
