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Arkansas students scored higher on ACT tests, but still lower than national average

Arkansas students had higher scores on the ACT college entrance exam, but those numbers are still not as high as the national average.  The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the composite score that Arkansas students averaged was 20.4.  That score is 0.2 percent higher from last year’s mark.  Officials say the national average composite score was 21.  The ACT tests students in four subjects: English, math, reading, and science.  The highest score on the ACT is a 36.  The number of students who took the test in Arkansas was about 26,800; an increase of almost 950 students.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.