17 students from one Ohio high school earn a perfect score on ACT
Sarah Brookbank
CINCINNATI - Seventeen Walnut Hills High School earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT, a standardized test used for college admission, according to Cincinnati Public Schools.
An additional 23 seniors missed the mark by a single point, said Principal John Chambers.
"I have never heard of so many students in one school earning a perfect score," Ed Curry, a spokesman for ACT told the district.
Curry said ACT does not keep records of students with perfect ACT scores by school or district and could not verify whether this was the largest number of students from one high school earning the top score.
ACT said approximately one-tenth of one percent of students who take the exam nationwide earn a 36, according to the district. The average ACT score for the class of 2017 was 21, according to The Princeton Review, a college admission services company.
The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each scored on a scale of 1–36. A student's composite score is the average of the four test scores.
Here are the students who earned a perfect score:
- Suvan Adhikari
- Nolan Brown
- Meoshea Britt
- Raymond Conroy
- Gabrielle Chiong
- Nickolas Deck
- Matthew Dumford
- Bridget Fuller
- Peter Hattemer
- Antoine Langree
- Nathan Miller
- Evan Peters
- Milan Parikh
- Mohit Pinninti
- Dhruv Rungta
- Naomi Stoner
- Alan Zhang
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