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Lindbergh Students Raise Academic Bar

Lindbergh seniors set record high scores on a college entrance exam, and students districtwide far exceed state and federal expectations on standardized tests.

students have set record high scores on the ACT college entrance exam, according to school officials.

Lindbergh seniors scored an average of 24.2 on the ACT (American College Testing program) compared to the statewide average of 21.6. The highest possible score is 36 in five different categories—English, math, reading, science reasoning and writing.

Superintendent Jim Simpson said the test scores were a full half point higher than last year’s. School officials announced the results during a school board meeting on Tuesday at the district’s Early Childhood Education building.

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“That is the highest ever,” Simpson said. “We keep raising it each year by two-tenths of a point or three-tenths of a point. And a majority of Lindbergh students take the ACT so this is not the average of only one or two students,” Simpson said.

The school does not take exceptional steps to prepare for the test and relies upon a strong yearlong curriculum, according to Lindbergh spokesperson Beth Cross.

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Lindbergh also scored exceptionally high on state standardized tests. So well in fact, Lindbergh schools have been ranked for the second consecutive years as the best in academic achievement among all public schools in Missouri.

Lindbergh students scored well beyond the state averages on the Missouri Assessment Program tests in communication arts and math.

More than 78 percent of local students scored “proficient” or “advanced” in communications arts compared to an average of 55 percent of students statewide.

Likewise, more than 81 percent of Lindbergh students scored proficient or advanced in Math compared to an average of 54 percent statewide.

The high scores also eclipsed the rising federal standards set within the No Child Left Behind Act—75.5 percent in communication arts and 72.5 percent in math.


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