All 540 juniors at Manhattan High School had the opportunity to take the ACT on Feb. 24. The majority of students took the ACT in the West Gym or North Gym.
For the past seven years, the ACT has been free to take at MHS on a student’s first attempt. Normally, it costs $68 per student. Keeping the ACT free allows for every student at MHS to be on equal academic footing when they apply to colleges. Over the past few years MHS has yielded strong ACT test scores.
“We continue to remain above the state average,” head principal Michael Dorst said. “Our composite scores are always higher than the state average, but the amount of kids that we actually test, our kids per school, is higher than the state average.”