SPRINGFIELD, ILL (WICS/WRSP) — Many school districts still facing repercussions of COVID-19 after receiving some low scores on the state report card.
There seems to be a common trend across the country, however, and that is low ACT and SAT scores.
ACT scores have dropped to the lowest in almost 30 years, and according to ACT the average score this year was 19.5.
Illinois is required to take the SAT and while schools are still struggling with lower scores, some districts here in Central Illinois are doing better than others.
Students struggling with test scores hasn’t only been a state problem, but a national problem with many pointing fingers at the pandemic.
“I just know that anytime you have kids out of school for almost two years in an unfamiliar format of learning, it's going to be difficult to get out of that hole overnight," said Jennifer Gill, superintendent of District 186.
This leaving many schools working towards getting their students back on track.
“We set out as a community to define what do we want our students to know and be able to do? And we looked at the whole child, and we did a backwards design, beginning at the high school and working backwards," said Dan Cox, superintendent of the Rochester School District.
Taking a look statewide at the ACT, when it comes to average Illinois scores English dipped slightly this year compared to last year, and math seemed to barely increase.
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