11 Walnut Hills High School Students Earn Perfect Act Score

Press release from Cincinnati Public Schools:

May 7, 2020

A total of 11 students from Walnut Hills High School earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT exam.

According to the ACT organization, less than one-half of one percent of all test takers earn the top score. Among the U.S. high school graduates in the class of 2019, just 4,879 out of nearly 1.8 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36.

The students earning a perfect score include:

• Kaden Clark (junior)
• Luke Early (freshman)
• Rohan Iyer (junior)
• Peter Kelly (junior)
• Ziyin Liu (junior)
• Raj Logue (junior)
• Shubhra Mishra (junior)
• Rafael Ramirez (junior)
• John Reed (sophomore)
• Samantha Rosen (junior)
• Andrew Ying (junior)

Another 22 students just missed a perfect score, earning 35 out of a possible 36, said Principal John Chambers.

The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student's composite score is the average of the four test scores.

The ACT is a curriculum-based achievement exam that measures what students have learned in school. Students who earn a 36-composite score have likely mastered all the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed in first-year college courses in the core subject areas.

ACT scores are accepted by all major four-year colleges and universities across the U.S.

This press release was produced by Cincinnati Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.