The ACT numbers just keep going up for the Elmbrook School District.
Recently graduated seniors increased the district's score on every section of the 36-point college entrance exam during the 2009-10 school year, including a 0.4-point bump in the district's composite average.
Elmbrook's average composite score was 24.8, tied with Arrowhead for the highest in Waukesha County.
And participation rates continue to climb for the district, too. Eighty-seven percent of Elmbrook's high school seniors took the test, up from 85 percent in 2010.
Statewide, public school students averaged 22.1 on the test, down from 22.2 last year. The national average was 21.
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Superintendent Matt Gibson said he was happy that the district's scores increased considering that the number of test-takers went up, too.
Nearly 600 students - 297 at Central and 282 at East - took the test.
Gibson said the results are "taken seriously by everyone" across Elmbrook.
"The ACT scores are a great measure I think of the culmination of a student's experience in the Elmbrook School District," he said.
Last year, the district hosted ACT examinations at East for the first time, something that proved very successful, Gibson said. East Principal Dan Pavletich said hosting the exam at East is beneficial because residents don't have to go somewhere outside the district to take the test.
Pavletich said the school will offer four examinations this school year - in October, December, April and June.
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The district's principals were impressed with the students' performance, too.
"I'm very pleased with the scores," Central Principal Don LaBonte said.
More than 90 percent of Central's seniors took the ACT, LaBonte said, and their composite scores ticked up 0.4 points from last year, hitting 24.7. The biggest increase came in the school's English scores, which went from 23.9 in 2008-09 to 24.6 in 2009-10.
"I think that the results of the ACT speak to what we're able to accomplish when we have kids over a span of time," LaBonte said.
Pavletich said East tied a record with its composite score of 24.9. Like Central, East's biggest increase came in English, where scores increased from 24.4 to 25.2.
"We're very pleased," he said.
AT A GLANCE
Elmbrook's 2009-10 ACT results (last year's scores in parentheses)
| Composite | Reading | English | Math | Science | |
| Central HS | 24.7 (24.3) | 24.8 (24.4) | 24.6 (23.9) | 24.8 (24.5) | 24.1 (23.9) |
| East HS | 24.9 (24.6) | 25.1 (25) | 25.2 (24.4) | 24.7 (24.5) | 24.2 (24) |
| Elmbrook | 24.8 (24.4) | 24.9 (24.7) | 24.9 (24.1) | 24.8 (24.5) | 24.2 (23.9) |
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How is this possible, since the high school building "improvements" costing taxpayers over $ 60 million are still in the works? I thought the bottom was going to drop out of academic achievement unless we spent money on gyms, new entryways and security cameras?
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