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The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has published the ACT results for public high school juniors who participated in the spring 2025 statewide testing. Mississippi is among 16 states that offer the ACT at no cost to high school juniors.
For 2025, the average composite score among 30,070 juniors was 17.5. This figure represents a slight increase from the previous year's average of 17.4. In recent years, scores were also recorded at 17.5 in 2023 and 17.4 in 2022. The percentage of students meeting benchmark scores across all four tested subjects rose to 9.5% in 2025, up from 8.8% in 2024.
Graduates from both public and private schools in Mississippi this year had an average ACT score of 17.7 and an average superscore of 19.4. Superscores are calculated by combining a student's highest scores from each ACT subject area—English, mathematics, reading, and science—across multiple test attempts.
The national average ACT score for public-school students graduating in the class of 2025 stands at 19.4.
According to MDE: "The ACT is designed to predict how well students will perform in college, and colleges use standardized tests like the ACT to compare students across schools and states." MDE further stated: "ACT research shows students who take four or more years of English and three or more years each of math, social studies and natural science typically outperform their peers who report taking fewer courses in these subjects."
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