John White’s Two Sets of 2015 ACT Scores
Louisiana has two sets of ACT scores for students who were seniors in 2014-15. The first set of scores was partially announced in July 2015; the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) issued this embargoed 2014-2015 Louisiana ACT 12th Grade Results release; these scores are only district- and state-level composite scores, not school-level.
Months passed; 2015 became 2016, and still, no release of a comprehensive file of school-level scores for Louisiana’s Class of 2015.
On February 05, 2016, I wrote to the state board (BESE) and Louisiana state superintendent John White about the issue:
When will the state release a comprehensive file of the Class of 2015 ACT composite scores?
BESE member Kathy Edmonston emailed White asking for how she might advise me on this issue, and on February 05, 2016, White sent her the following response to Edmonston and all of BESE, which Edmonston then forwarded to me:
Subject: Re: Class of 2015 ACT scoresThis request regards an Excel file listing all individual school average ACT scores. Those scores have been posted publicly on individual school report cards since October. An Excel file containing all school scores in one sheet has been through the data certification process and will be posted next week. [Emphasis added.]John
So, that brings us to the second set of Class of 2015 ACT scores– the ones posted on school report cards.
According to the email above, John White writes as though the Excel file LDOE is John White’s Two Sets of 2015 ACT Scores | deutsch29: