Private School Students More Likely to Succeed in College If you graduated from a private high school this past June, you were significantly more likely than graduates of other schools to be ready for college coursework, according to data compiled by ACT, the college admission testing company.Eighty-three percent of 2012 graduates of religious and independent schools who took the ACT met or surpassed the test's college readiness benchmark score in English, compared to 64 percent of graduates from public schools. The share of students who met the benchmark scores in other subjects was also higher in private schools (see chart). The ACT recently released a report titled The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2012, which summarizes the national performance of ACT-tested students. At CAPE's request, the company compiled comparable data for private school graduates. Find out more about the ACT report in the September issue of CAPE Outlook, available here for download as a free PDF document. Also in the September Outlook:
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