Missouri high schools honored for top scoring ACT students

KSDK -- St. Louis-area schools were among 22 schools across the state honored by the Missouri ACT State Organization and ACT for having one or more students in its 2009 graduating class that scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college admissions and placement exam.

Only 638 of the more than 1.4 million 2009 graduates nationally who took the ACT earned a top score. In Missouri, 29 high school graduates out of more than 46,000 tested in the graduating class of 2009 earned a top score on the ACT.

The ACT, a curriculum-based achievement test, consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science. Each test is scored on a scale of 1-36, and a student's composite score is the average of the four test scores.

The schools honored were:
Blue Springs High School, Blue Springs
Central High School, Springfield
Central High School, Cape Girardeau
Christian Fellowship School, Columbia
Clayton High School, Clayton
Desmet Jesuit High School, St. Louis
Eureka High School, Eureka
Francis Howell Central High School, St. Charles
Hickman High School, Columbia
John Burroughs High School, St. Louis
Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis
Lafayette High School, Ballwin
Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics & Computing, Maryville
Notre Dame De Sion, Kansas City
Notre Dame Regional High School, Cape Girardeau
Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield
Parkway South High School, Manchester
Parkway West High School, Ballwin
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City
Savannah R-111 High School, Savannah
Saint Louis Priory School, St. Louis
Saint Louis University High School, St. Louis