How did students from Newport High School perform on the Reading portion of the ACT in 2022-23 school year?

At Newport High School, students achieved a college readiness rate of 23% on the reading portion of the ACT for the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

On average, students scored 16.7 in reading during the 2022-23 school year, compared to 16.5 in the previous year.

Reading proficiency in the school dropped 3% compared to the previous school year, when 26% of students were considered ready for post-secondary education.

For comparison, 44% of students across Kentucky met or exceeded ACT benchmarks in reading during 2022-23 school year.

Beyond reading, 37% of students Newport High School met the English college readiness benchmarks in the 2022-23 school year. Additionally, 19% were considered college-ready in math.

Newport High School is located within Newport Independent School District, in which it stood out with the highest ACT performance in reading in the 2022-23 school year.

Despite escaping some of the pandemic's educational disruptions, Kentucky's achievement gaps have remained an issue since 2019. In the eighth-grade reading assessments, for example, Hispanic students scored eight points lower than their white peers, and the gap reached 15 points in math. Black students fared even worse, falling more than 20 points behind and facing a failure rate nearly double that of their white counterparts.