District scores above average on ACT, SAT college entrance examinations

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Joe Czykoski, Staff Writer
December 14, 2011
Filed under News

For the first time in eight years, Boise School District students’ national average SAT/ACT test scores were at their highest levels, according to results from the 2011 American College Test (ACT) and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).

For example, on the ACT, the average district student scored 22.9, Idaho student 21.7, and students in the nation 21.1. The highest ACT score is 36.

Scores follow the same trend for SAT math and reading scores. On the SAT math scores, Boise students scored an average of 566 in 2011, Idaho 539, and the nation 514. On reading, the average scores in 2011 are 563 for BSD students, 542 for Idaho students, and 497 for the nation.

“I think it’s cool that I live in the district that scored the highest,” said Bart Buskey II, a senior who took the tests.

The Borah Career Center offered programs that helped students prepare for the tests, such as the ACT Crash Course Day. “It’s when kids can come in and do a full period of test prep,” said Career Center Counselor Kathy Lecertua. “It covers all four area of the test, and we do that one time in the fall and one time in the spring.”