The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released ACT results of all public high school juniors who took the test during the spring 2025 statewide administration. Mississippi is one of 16 states that administers the ACT for free to high school juniors.
The average composite score for 30,070 juniors was 17.5, a slight increase of the 2024 average score of 17.4. Previous years’ average scores were 17.5 in 2023 and 17.4 in 2022. The percentage of juniors meeting the benchmark scores for all four tested ACT subjects in 2025 was 9.5%, an increase from 8.8% in 2024.
Among 2025 Mississippi public and private school graduates, the most recent average score is 17.7 and the average superscore is 19.4. Superscores are generated when a student takes the ACT multiple times and the student’s best scores from each of the four tested ACT subjects – English, mathematics, reading and science – are combined.
The national average ACT score for all public-school students in the class of 2025 is 19.4.
The ACT is designed to predict how well students will perform in college, and colleges use standardized tests like the ACT to compare students across schools and states. ACT research shows students who take four or more years of English and three or more years each of math, social studies and natural science typically outperform their peers who report taking fewer courses in these subjects.
The MDE provides districts with two opportunities – ACT/SAT Prep I and ACT/SAT Prep II – to provide ACT preparation courses. In addition, school districts offer two specialized classes, the Essentials for College Literacy and the Essentials for College Math, as an option to help seniors who need to improve their ACT scores to qualify for early release. Students who earn a grade of 80% or higher in these courses are entitled to enter credit-bearing college courses, without remediation, at all Mississippi public universities and most community colleges.
24 comments:
17.4 vs 17.5 is not statistically significant
What percentage of high school students in MS take the ACT?
Good god. A 17.5? That’s really bad. Who would want to even discuss this?
What happened to the “Mississippi Miracle”?
Anything under a 20 is quite sad.
Would love to see what schools like JP, JA, etc are doing on their ACTs.
9:47- Alot of kids take the ACT for good out of state colleges.
Kids sadly are being taught at a 17 level. And even more sad is they aren't self motivated to reach that 20 on their own. Now if you could make it a cell killing ticky tock video.................they would all score a 28.
Rounding error.
17.5 is nothing to brag about.
And that's with an Attendance Crisis where 30% are not attending.
17.5 is an embarrassment. Who would be proud of that?
Thank the good Lord my kids all did well on their ACT and we didn't have to pay for college. The JumpStart ACT Test Prep site helped (not an ad, referral from a real family that used it): https://jumpstarttestprep.com/
I am a 79 JP grad. I took the ACT my junior year assuming I would probably take it again. I made a 29. One and done. Probably a lot of luck, but I also feel like we were prepared.
It is going in the right direction. I suppose the state’s citizens have to work at keeping the state at the bottom. God forbid anything good is said about MS.
How bad is a 13
If you repeat 4 times that Mississippi ACT score had risen and thats a real good score one third of the Mississippi population would believe it’s a Great score! It’s how you present it!
The Legislature loves good news. We’re moving forward, good job teaching our brightest minds 17 score is excellent, 17 score is excellent, 17 score is excellent and 17 on the ACT is excellent.
We are moving Mississippi! New Slogan on improving Mississippi Schools.
I'd like to know how many states mandate all high school juniors take the test. Honestly, a large number of students across Mississippi have no desire to attend college and also no motivation to do anything on the test since our community colleges don't have a certain score for admission, only class placement. It's much the same with IHL now. If it doesn't matter how a person does, what's the incentive to try?
...because the test was made easier...
But are they using proper pronouns?
A 17 will get ya a full-ride to Ole Miss
I went to a Jackson private school and made a 17 three different times. It’s not the schools fault always. I’m just not a good test taker.
My kid took it one time and made a 26 and has no desire to attend college.
Those scores are abysmal! Harvard requires a score between 34 and 36 today. When my children were applying for college , the scores needed were over 40 and my grandchildren who are freshman made that on the ACT. What is required on the SAT? An also abysmal 3 digit score when it should be over 1000?
I'm not an educator and don't
play one on TV. Is one-tenth of one percent improvement something to celebrate like this, especially how far below the national average it still is?
6:24 - I hate to keep pointing this out (not). Ole Miss has produced 27 Rhodes Scholars, while Miss. State has had two. The School Up North must be doing something right. Obviously the learning culture is that much better.
@8:04
your grandkids must have applied to hogwarts because the maximum score on the ACT is 36
The Mississippi Miracle was a hoax.
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