{"id":11907,"date":"2012-08-23T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=11907"},"modified":"2012-08-24T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T21:09:49","slug":"last-years-high-school-grads-not-expected-to-do-well-in-college-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/23\/last-years-high-school-grads-not-expected-to-do-well-in-college-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Year’s High School Grads Not Expected to Do Well in College This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report projects just 18 percent of the 2012 high school graduates in Florida who took the ACT test would do well in first year college courses.<\/p><\/div>\n

Florida students aren’t as prepared for college as students in other states.<\/p>\n

That’s according to this year’s Condition of College and Career Readiness report released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It looks at ACT test<\/a> scores\u00a0to project how well high school grads would do in first year college courses.<\/p>\n

About 70 percent of Florida’s graduating class took the ACT test — 118,420 students total — but only 18 percent of those test-takers are considered college-ready.<\/p>\n

The national average of college-ready students is 25 percent.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s average score was among the lowest of all states \u2014 only Arizona, Mississippi and Tennessee did worse.<\/p>\n

Here are the percentages of college-ready students by subject area test.<\/p>\n