Percent of 2011-15 Tennessee ACT-Tested High School
Graduates Meeting Three or More COllege-Ready
Benchmarks by Race/Ethnicity
100
80
60
47
48
46
32
34
34
18
19
7
2011
40
20
54
49
36
38
19
20
21
7
8
8
9
2012
2013
2014
2015
0
Asian
Black/African American
Hispanic/Latina/o
White
These disparities are also dramatically displayed by the percentages of students scoring at college-ready levels
in math and science. While more than half of Asian and more than a third of white students met or exceeded
benchmark scores for math and science in 2015, just one in five Hispanic and fewer than one in ten African American
students did so.
Tennessee ACT-Tested High School Graduates Meeting CollegeReady Benchmarks in Math and Science By Race/ethnicity, 2015
100
90
80
70
60
60
52
50
40
22
30
9
20
10
21
36
36
9
0
Asian
Black/African American
Hispanic/Latina/o
White
Mathematics
Science
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