How did students from Beechwood High School perform on the English portion of the ACT in 2022-23 school year?

At Beechwood High School, students achieved a college readiness rate of 85% on the English portion of the ACT for the 2022-23 school year, according to the Kentucky Department of Education.

On average, students scored 24.2 in English during the 2022-23 school year, compared to 23.7 in the previous year.

English proficiency in the school rose 3% compared to the previous school year, when 82% of students were considered ready for post-secondary education.

For comparison, 47% of students across Kentucky met or exceeded ACT benchmarks in English during 2022-23 school year.

Beyond English, 73% of students Beechwood High School met the math college readiness benchmarks in the 2022-23 school year. Additionally, 68% were considered college-ready in reading.

Beechwood High School is the only school located in Beechwood Independent School District.

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.