Nearly two dozen students at a single Chicago high school got a perfect score on the ACT.

The 23 teenagers — nearly 5% of the junior class at Whitney Young Magnet High School — were honored in a special ceremony Monday for the monumental achievement.

“Today is one of those rare, extraordinary moments in a school’s history when we get to pause and celebrate academic greatness,” Rickey Harris, the school’s principal, said at the ceremony.

Nearly 5% of the junior class scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. Instagram/whitneymyounghs

Just 125 students across the Windy City achieved the feat this year, according to preliminary ACT data obtained by Fox 32.

Typically, just 1% of high schoolers take home the perfect score of 36 per year.

But at Whitney Young Magnet, the students had been aiming

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