The new accountability system will be used to assess schools and districts starting this school year.

The Mississippi Department of Education announced the most recent ACT scores across the state and approved a new assessment scoring system for districts and schools during the State Board of Education meeting on Thursday.

ACT scores

According to MDE, just more than 30,000 high school juniors took the ACT test during the spring, scoring an average composite of 17.5.

The score holds steady with average scores from previous years, varying only by a tenth of a percentage point between the previous three years. Nationally, the average ACT score of public school students for that same testing period was 19.4.

Results from this year also indicate that 9.5 percent of juniors met benchmark sco

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