Cobb Students Achieve Record High ACT Scores

Cobb students achieved record-high scores on the ACT college entrance exam, according to figures released Wednesday by the Georgia Department of Education.

The class of 2016 scored nearly two points higher than students nationally. In addition, 10 students in five Cobb County schools attained perfect scores.

The district’s average score of 22.6 is 1.8 points higher than the national average of 20.8 and the state average of 21.1.

The schools with students who scored a perfect 36 points on the ACT include Campbell High School (1); Kell High School (1); Kennesaw Mountain School (1); Walton High School (5); and Wheeler High School (2). All of those students graduated last spring.

Ten of the district’s 16 high schools posted average ACT composite scores higher than the state and national average. Nearly 57 percent of all 2016 the district’s nearly 4,300 graduating seniors took the ACT in either their sophomore, junior, or senior years.

Walton High School had the highest average score in the district at 26.6 points. At Pope High School, the average score of 25.2 is the second highest in Cobb County schools.

Overall, Georgia’s students showed marked improvement on the ACT in 2016, increasing the state’s average composite score and the percentage of students meeting the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, even as the national average decreased and the number of Georgia students taking the ACT went up.

Georgia’s average composite score of 21.1 was higher, for the first time in state history, than the national average of 20.8. Georgia outperformed the nation in English, reading, and science as well, and scored the same as the national average in mathematics.

Here's a look at how Cobb's high school performed, including the number of test takers and the school's average composite score:

ALAN C POPE HIGH SCHOOL

• 319
• 25.2

ALLATOONA HIGH SCHOOL

• 197
• 22.2

CAMPBELL HIGH SCHOOL

• 247
• 20.7

CARLTON J KELL HIGH SCHOOL

• 203
• 21.3

GEORGE WALTON COMP HIGH SCHOOL

• 452
• 26.6

HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL

• 333
• 23.4

HILLGROVE HIGH SCHOOL

• 345
• 22.6

JOSEPH WHEELER HIGH SCHOOL

• 219
• 24.1

KENNESAW MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL

• 276
• 24.8

LASSITER HIGH SCHOOL

• 326
• 24.8

MCEACHERN HIGH SCHOOL

• 272
• 19.6

NORTH COBB HIGH SCHOOL

• 389
• 21.6

PEBBLEBROOK HIGH SCHOOL

• 218
• 18.5

ROBERT L OSBORNE HIGH SCHOOL

• 100
• 17.1

SOUTH COBB HIGH SCHOOL

• 193
• 18.7

SPRAYBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

• 174
• 21

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