{"id":3824,"date":"2016-08-24T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2016-08-24T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:55:35","slug":"bisd-exceeds-state-and-nation-on-act-bisdshines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/bisd-exceeds-state-and-nation-on-act-bisdshines\/","title":{"rendered":"BISD exceeds state and nation on ACT #BISDShines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3826 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-450x117.png\" alt=\"ACT_logo.svg\" width=\"450\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-450x117.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-768x200.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-760x198.png 760w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-518x135.png 518w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-82x21.png 82w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-600x156.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ACT_logo.svg_-550x143.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ACT scores for 2016 were released this week, and BISD\u2019s composite score of 21.2 for English, mathematics, reading and science is higher than the state composite of 20.6 and the national composite of 20.8. Average scores on the individual portions of the tests were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">English \u2013 BISD scored 20.5 as compared to the state at 19.4;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mathematics \u2013 BISD scored 21.1 as compared to the state at 20.7;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reading \u2013 BISD scored 21.6 as compared to the state at 21.0; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Science \u2013 BISD scored 21.4 as compared to the state at 20.7.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Individual campus scores were 21.9 for Birdville High, 19.4 for Haltom High, 22.3 for Richland High, and 22.0 for Shannon High School. A total of 552 BISD students took the ACT in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is exciting to see BISD students continue to excel on the ACT,\u201d said Superintendent Dr. Darrell G. Brown. \u201cOver the past five years, the number of BISD students taking advanced placement (AP) courses has increased. As the test results show, taking more rigorous AP courses helps prepare students for these high-level tests.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">SAT scores will be released later this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACT scores for 2016 were released this week, and BISD\u2019s composite score of 21.2 for English, mathematics, reading and science is higher than the state composite of 20.6 and the national composite of 20.8. Average scores on the individual portions of the tests were: English \u2013 BISD scored 20.5 as compared to the state at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bisdshines","category-act"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76FL9-ZG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3828,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}