The Perfect Ten: Williamson County Dectet Hit 36 on ACT

Ten Williamson County students can shout down Joe E. Brown's Osgood from the classic Some Like It Hot.

In fact, sir, every once in a while, somebody is perfect.

Six Brentwood High students, a trio from Ravenwood and one student from Page beat the odds and posted perfect scores of 36 on the ACT.

According to ACT, Inc., only one-tenth of 1 percent of the 1.5 million annual test takers ace the standardized test - about 1,500 each year.

This year, an astonishing ten of them came from Williamson County.

Brentwood's Suh Hyeon Ahn, Katherine Beier, Shirley Cai, Matthew Donahue, Shreyas Kumar and Abigail Ezell all had perfect scores. Cailyn Goodbred, Theodore Grosson and Benjamin Thieme were the three Ravenwood students with a 36 and Hunter Spivey was put up Page's perfect-oh

.“These students are certainly among the nation’s academic elite,” said WCS Assessment Analyst Kevin Deck. “Their accomplishment is yet another example of the talented students we have in WCS.”

For those who did not do as well as they would have liked, the state Department of Education is offering a free re-take for seniors who already took the test as juniors. The state already offered vouchers for free testing for juniors, but under a first-of-its-kind program approved by the legislature this year, a second chance is being offered for any public high school senior to take the test for free on the national test day of Oct. 22. The registration deadline for that test is Sept. 16.

For more information on the free retake, visit the Department of Education web site.