ACT Scores 2022 Index
Vermont Business Magazine The pandemic has challenged students across the United States in many ways, and one of the hardest affected groups has been high school students. It is becoming very common for students to take the ACT Test as a college application option. The latest ACT 2022 scores show that this generation scored the lowest national average in two decades. Vermont finished 16th in the composite ACT score nationally with a 23.7, well above the national average but below its neighbors and lowest in the Northeast.
According to Scholaroo’s ACT Scores 2022 Index new report, a survey that measures the average scores of English, Math, Reading and Science that every student from each state obtained, Scholaroo's data analysts have found that the average composite score for 2022 was 19.8 out of 36. While the average composite score for 1991, the lowest until now, was 20.6.
VERMONT ACT SCORES 2022:
- Ranks #16 in the country
- Average English Score: 23.4
- Average Math Score: 22.4
- Average Reading Score: 25
- Average Science Score: 23.5
- Average Composite Score: 23.7
KEY FINDINGS
- Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York are the 5 states where students achieved the highest ACT scores. Not surprisingly, these states, with the exception of California, have the lowest teacher shortages in the country.
- Nevada, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Louisiana are the 5 states where students achieved the lowest ACT scores. Nevada is the fourth state with highest Teacher Shortage in the country.
- Approximately 1.3 million students in the U.S. high school graduating class of 2022 took the ACT test, an estimated 36 percent of graduates nationwide.
- Thirty-five percent of the ACT-tested graduating class took the ACT more than once, as compared to 32% for the 2021 cohort.