Lake Washington students who take the ACT, a standardized test used in college admissions, continue to show they are more likely to meet college readiness standards than other students in Washington state or in the U.S.
Compared nationally and statewide, far more district students score high enough on each of the four ACT tests to meet the college readiness benchmark that ACT has set for all four subjects – English, math, reading and science. While nationally only 26 percent of students met this standard for all four subjects and 41 percent met it statewide, 59 percent of the students in LWSD who took the ACT qualified, two percent more than in 2013.
Ninety-two percent of LWSD students taking the ACT met the college readiness benchmark score in English, compared to 74 percent statewide and 64 percent nationwide.
In math, 80 percent of district students met the readiness benchmark, while at the state level it was 62 percent and 43 percent nationally.
For reading, 72 percent of district students met the benchmark compared to 58 percent statewide and 44 percent nationally.
In science, 70 percent of LWSD students met the readiness benchmark while 52 percent statewide and 37 percent nationally met that standard.
The number of students in LWSD who took the ACT test rose from 450 in 2013 to 474 in 2014.