PreACT 9 – Data

[CPS_Parent]

With so many scores and discussions in the PreACT 9 thread, I thought it might be helpful to collect individual results in one place using a consistent format.

If you’re comfortable sharing, please include:

Tier: 1, 2, 3, or 4
Current school: SEES, Academic Center (AC), Neighborhood, Neighborhood (Accelerated Program), or Private *No need to list actual school, just type of school/program
PreACT 9 composite score: 1–32
Total admissions points: Out of 640 (GPA + PreACT)
1st choice high school:
2nd choice high school:

EXAMPLE:
Tier: 4
School type: Neighborhood (Accelerated Program)
PreACT 9: 26
Total points: 580
1st choice: Lane Tech
2nd choice: Jones

Obviously, this won’t be a representative sample of all CPS applicants, but might give us some useful insight.

Tier:
School type:
PreACT 9:
Total points:
1st choice:
2nd choice:

[Student]

Tier 3
Taft Academic Center
26
Whitney
Lane

[Student]

580 total points

[Anon Parent]

Tier: 4
School type: CPS Magnet School
PreACT 9: 30
Total points: 620
1st choice: Northside
2nd choice: Payton

[Parent neighborhood school]

Tier 4 neighborhood school
Pre ACT 9: 25
Total 570
1: Jones
2: WY

[Pondderiver]

Tier 1 private school
Pre ACT 9: 24
Total 569
1: WY
2: Jones

[Pondderiver]

Meant 560

[Testprepmooom]

Tier 3
Magnet school
28
Whitney
Lane
Points: 600

[Student]

Was your child one of the highest scorers?

[Testprepmooom]

No there was a 29, 30, and 32 but they weren’t all tier 3.

[Somebody]

Tier: 4
School type: CPS SEES
PreACT 9: 31
Total points: 630
1st choice: Payton
2nd choice: WY

[Somebody else]

What was ur sub score

[laurenschwartz06]

You can also fill out the poll another parent created on the other PreACT9 thread if you haven’t already, just to start gauging averages (but not by tier, etc.): https://votegenerator.com/#results=eoa6na66zetj

[CPS_Parent]

Yep, filled that out as well. It’s helpful for getting a general sense of scores, but I wish it showed the median and score distribution

[Student]

Tier 4
Neighborhood school (Accelerated)
25
550
Jones
Whitney

In my class, all the Pre-ACT scores have been from 20 to 31. The most frequent score I’ve seen is 25.

[Student]

I’ve also spoken to some students from the WY AC program, and they’ve reported 27, 28, 28, 28, 29, 30, 30, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32

[Arby]

Tier: 4
School type: Classical
PreACT 9: 30
Total points: 620
1st choice: Lane Tech
2nd choice: ???

[Anne]

Tier 2
Neighborhood school
PreACT 9: 30
Total Points: 620
1st choice: Jones
2nd choice: Young

Scores from neighborhood school seem to be mostly 17-28.

[Parent Guest]

Tier: 4
School type: Catholic School
PreACT 9: 32
Total points: 640
1st choice: Northside
2nd choice: Payton

[Alan]

Tier:2
School type: neighborhood
Preact 9: 21
Total points: 530
1st choice: Whitney
2nd choice: Payton

I’ll be honest I don’t think I’m getting accepted😢

[Pondderiver]

You never know, it is likely only people with high scores are sharing their results. 21 is a solid score no matter the HS choice outcome, you should be proud of yourself!

[balalallla]

Please post if your school has reported the average composite score in your school. I hear schools are starting to release this.

[Student]

Tier 1
Magnet School
PreACT 9: 20
Total Points: 520
1 WY
2. Jones

[guest123]

Anything above a 22 is 90th percentile. 26 is 95th percentile. The average was a 15 and a huge majority of students scored between 11-15

[Arby]

CPS actually released some data on scores!

[Arby]

https://cdn.bfldr.com/MXCD21SV/at/ms7cs4749nr2qkbp9brjc/GoCPS_Understanding_HSAT_Scores_EN.pdf

[CPS_Parent]

Thanks! Where was this posted (parent page) – is this on the Selective Enrollment Programs page on GO CPS (https://www.cps.edu/gocps/high-school/explore/selective-enrollment-programs/)? Can’t seem to find it.

[Arby]

It was sent to me first from the school counselor, then in an email from the Office of Access & Enrollment. I’m not sure where it’s posted online.

[Arby]

It’s interesting that the percentiles aren’t totally in line with national averages. It seems like CPS outperformed in the higher scores by about a point? 95th percentile is a 27 and 90th is a 23. 99th percentile is a 31.

[CPS_Parent]

Also those national averages are for 9th graders, no?

[Alan]

Admin for my school hasn’t spoken up about any scores. All I know is that someone got a score of 22 and 19. The sad thing is I’m like top of my class and I only scored 21. I heard nothing about someone getting a 32 since almost nobody is getting the act email or bothering to check.

[Student]

Tier 4
Neighborhood school
32
640
Whitney
Payton

[Arby]

Decatur Classical Average: 27.76, compared to 15 for the District. 52.9% of students at Decatur scored a 29 or above, compared to 2.6% for the District

[Peekaboo parent]

Good job but how many kids is that 15?

[Student]

Even though it seems like a ton of people are getting 30+ only 420 actually did. As long as you have a 25 or up, even tier 4 can likely get into at least one selective enrollment highschool.

[Somebody else]

Tier: 4
School type: private (Accelerated Program)
PreACT 9: 31
Total points: 630
1st choice: Payton
2nd choice: whitney or jones

[Denmark Turner-Brown]

Tier: 4
School type: AC
PreACT: 32
Tital Points: 640

[HH]

Tier: 3
School type: neighborhood
PreACT 9: 25
Total points: 570
1st choice: Northside
2nd choice: Lane

[Danny]

Tier:4
School type: Catholic
PreACT 9:30
Total points: 620
1st choice: St. Ignatius
2nd choice: Lane

[Danny]

Tier:4
School type: Catholic
PreACT 9:30
Total points: 620
1st choice: St. Ignatius
2nd choice: Lane

[MommaT]

Tier:2
School type: neighborhood
Preact 9: 21
Total points: 510
1st choice: Jones
2nd choice: Whitney

[ChiTechParent]

Tier: 4
School type: Classical
PreACT 9: 31 (Math:32, Reading:32)
Total points: 630
1st choice: Whitney
2nd choice: Payton
3rd choice: Lane

Northside is like driving to another universe plus their open house 1+ hr wait lines were a major turnoff 🙁 Can’t imagine how inefficient the day to day operations are

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