OMAHA Neb.
Nebraska’s 2007 graduating seniors scored slightly higher on the ACT college entrance exam than the 2006 graduates who took the test.
The state’s average score was 22.1, up two-tenths of a percentage point from 21.9 last year and three-tenths of a point from 21.8 in 2005.
The national average this year was 21.2, up a tenth of a percentage point from last year’s 21.1 and three-tenths of a point higher than 2005. The highest ACT score possible is 36.
Nebraska’s average of 22.1 was tied with California for 13th-highest in the nation.
Massachusetts had the highest score for 2007, 23.5, but only 15 percent of its eligible students took the ACT.
Nearly 77 percent of Nebraska’s 2007 graduating seniors took the test, or 16,137 students. Nationally, 42 percent took the test.
