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Area students score above averages on standardized test
How we compare For the sixth year in a row, both brick-andmortar schools in Lawrence topped both the national and state averages on the ACT standardized test.
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A Lawrence man shot by police more than two years ago and later convicted of aiming a loaded shotgun at an officer during the incident was sentenced on Friday to serve more than a year in prison. Zachary James Ortiz, 26, was found guilty of one felony count of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer on July 22. He was arrested the morning of June 23, 2014, after he aimed a loaded shotgun at Lawrence Police Officer Skyler Rich- Ortiz ardson. Friday afternoon Ortiz appeared in court to be sentenced.
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Lawrence: The city’s average score is roughly 23.2.
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Eudora: Eudora High School averaged 22.9.
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Baldwin City: Baldwin High School’s average score was 23.4.
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22.7 23.8 Lawrence High School’s average score dipped slightly from the 2014-2015 average of 23.3.
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o one will ever confuse the The Malls shopping center at 23rd and Louisiana with Allen Fieldhouse. (I don’t want to get into all the details, but if you show up with a “K” painted on your bare chest, it is not well received at certain establishments in The Malls.) But soon at The Malls, you will be able to buy the same KU gear that previously was for sale inside Allen Fieldhouse. > STORE, 2A
Free State High School’s average score stayed the same as the 20142015 average, at 23.8.
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awrence high school students continue to outperform, on average, their peers on both the state and national level when it comes to the ACT, according to numbers released Friday by the Lawrence school district. We have a Students at Lawgreat system and rence’s two public, we have great brick-and-mortar high schools, Free kids, so we’re State High School and very fortunate in Lawrence High School, that sense.” have scored above state and national aver- — FSHS Principal Myron ages for the past six Graber years. The average ACT score in Kansas for the 2015-2016 school year was 21.9; the national average was 20.8. That year, 256 Free State students took the ACT, averaging a 23.8 composite score. At Lawrence High School, where the same number I think it’s of students took the test, a real good the average score was 22.7. The Lawrence aver- indication of the age totaled 23.2, roughly. fact that we are Average scores for preparing kids both Lawrence high schools, as well as those for college.” at the state and national — LHS Principal Matt level, have remained Brungardt about the same for the past six years now. The ACT consists of curriculum-based tests in English, math, reading and science, and is designed to measure skills needed for success in first-year college coursework. Students are scored on a scale of 1 to 36, with 36 being the highest possible score. Even with the slight dip in average scores (from 23.3 in the 2014-2015 school year, to 2015-2016’s 22.7) at LHS, Principal Matt Brungardt said he’s pleased with his school’s numbers. In assessing scores, Brungardt said it’s important to compare local numbers with state and national averages. “We’ve been right around 23 for a number of years at this building. Some years it goes up, some years it goes down,” Brungardt said. “We had 256 kids out of 350 graduates that took the test last year. So, that was a really good percentage when, in 2015, we were at 23.3, but we only had 189 kids take the test.”
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