Newport School of Innovation registered 11% of students as college-ready based on English performance on 2023-24 ACT

At Newport School of Innovation, students achieved a college readiness rate of 11% on the English portion of the ACT for the 2023-24 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

On average, students scored 13.1 in English during the 2023-24 school year, compared to 12.8 in the previous year.

English proficiency in the school rose 3% compared to the previous school year, when 8% of students were considered ready for post-secondary education.

For comparison, 44% of students across Kentucky met or exceeded ACT benchmarks in English during 2023-24 school year.

Beyond English, 22% of students Newport School of Innovation met the reading college readiness benchmarks in the 2023-24 school year. Additionally, 6% were considered college-ready in math.

Newport School of Innovation is located within Newport Independent School District, in which Newport High School stood out with the highest ACT performance in English in the 2023-24 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.