ACT District Testing —
K12 Principals

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Stand Up for Student Success

By breaking down barriers to access, ACT® District Testing improves your measures of success and raises student awareness—from test scores to college enrollment rates.

District Testing Program Details

Taking the ACT test can help students open doors to their dream school.

We asked college and university admissions experts if they still find value in the solutions ACT offers to high school students. Here's what they had to say.

District Testing Overview (PDF)

The Path to College and Career Success Starts Early

Success doesn’t happen in a year. It happens year after year. That’s why ACT offers a continuum of sequential assessments that prepares your students for a lifetime of success—in college and beyond. The tests in the ACT Assessment System have a common score scale, making it easy to track performance across tests, measure growth, and identify areas where students need work.  

Get the Data You Need

ACT District Testing benefits your students and educators by empowering your school to make informed curriculum decisions. Monitor progress with ACT Online Reporting, a FREE interactive platform for schools who leverage the ACT District Testing Program for data analysis. 
 

Your Data. Your Reports.

Online experience with interactive, consumable and downloadable reports.

  • Create custom reports and save online. 
  • Save your individual queries for easy retrieval later.

Summary and Deep Dive

Data tools allow educators to dig deeper into current and historical statistical data.

  • Up to 5 years of historical data
  • Summary statistics
  • Frequencies
  • Cross-tabs
  • Scatterplots

Targeted Exploration

Quickly identify where students are aligned to your benchmarks.

  • Drill down to data at a state, district, school or student level. (based on access)
  • View aggregate reports for the entire student body.

Monitor Report Use

Easily view and manage who is utilizing the online reporting system.

  • User activity
  • Activity summaries

On-Demand Webinar: District Testing 101

Get Started with District Testing

In this free webinar, we show you how district testing benefits your school and students. By creating a college-going culture with district testing, you can help students realize they have the skills to perform college-level coursework and give your district the information it needs to get them there.

Watch the District Testing 101 Webinar

District and School Leaders on the Value and Impact of ACT District Testing


Why Offering ACT District Testing is Important
The importance of using the ACT to get students to post-secondary as well as see where to improve and what to celebrate.


ACT District Testing Outcomes
How aligning curriculum with assessment provides the foundation for student success and college readiness.


ACT District Testing and Equity
The importance of measurement with ACT District Testing and the value of how that informs curriculum alignment.

What Principals are Saying About ACT District Testing

How principals are using the ACT to improve and track students' readiness for college and career.
 

"One of the reasons I don't pay much attention to SAT is I don't know what their scores mean. The thing I like about ACT: At our school, we don't focus a lot on scores - we focus a lot more on benchmarks because we can tell what that means."

-Alan Schotts, Career Center Coordinator
Cody High School, Cody, Wyoming

 
"The ACT is a good baseline for us to help with remediation and scheduling for students. ACT is easy to administer, and students understand the data very easily."

-Principal, Kentucky


Read more about the success our customers are experiencing with the program and the remarkable results it helped schools and students achieve.

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