Uptick seen in ACT scores at Chase County Schools

    In all four areas of the ACT, students at Chase County Schools improved or matched their 2018 scores.
    Composite and individual subject test scores for 2019 were released by the state this month, comparing local schools’ ACT scores to the state averages over the past five years.
    The latest CCS scores are good news to Jon Lechtenberg, 7-12 principal at CCS, who’s had a goal of better ACT performance  here.
    “When a student leaves here, whether they are going to work or on to college, the higher up on the academic spectrum we can get them, the better,” he said.
    At CCS, 39 students in 2019 took the ACT this spring, and averaged a composite score in all four areas of 18.1.
    That’s up nearly a point from the 2018 composite score of 17.3.
    In the individual test areas, CCS students had improved scores from the previous year in English (15.8 to 17.4), math (17.5 to 17.6) and science (17.4 to 18.5). In reading, there was no change in the 18.2 average score.
    Lechtenberg said CCS administration wants to see all of its students get better ACT scores.
    “Part of that is the awareness of the ACT and its importance,” he said.
    Lechtenberg emphasized a student’s ACT results do not predict whether he or she will be successful or not.

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