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Casey County High School Sees ACT Composite Surge 2.5 Points

  • January 20, 2023

“We play the regular season in our classrooms. But on ACT test day, in the gym that is our arena. It’s time for our students to excel in the Super Bowl,” said Barry Lee, Superintendent of Casey County Schools.

Superintendent Lee would be very proud of his students’ performances on game day. 

Casey County High School, located in rural Kentucky, improved its ACT Composite average for its junior class by 2.5 points, jumping from 17.3 in the 2020-21 school year to 19.8 in 2021-22, as reported by the Kentucky Department of Education. Overall, students improved 3 points in both English (15.8 to 18.8) and Science (17.2 to 20.2), and 2.2 points in both Math (17.4 to 19.6) and Reading (18.1 to 20.3).

These increases came following the first full school year of Casey County Schools implementing MasteryPrep ACT resources for its students.

“We wanted a consistent, student-friendly product that delivered questions, assessments, and prep material comparable to what students experienced on the real test, and we got that college readiness support with MasteryPrep,” Lee says. “We still have work to do, but we saw major gains across the board and considerable improvement in our first year using MasteryPrep boot camps, practice tests, curriculum, and professional development for our teachers.”

  • 'A Big Hit'

Working in the education system for 21 years—19 with Casey County Schools—Lee began his tenure as Superintendent in 2021-22. In addition to implementing MasteryPrep resources at Casey County High in his first year, Lee introduced two additional test-prep changes that proved successful.

The MasteryPrep ACT Boot Camps, held in late winter and early spring, took place off-campus at a nearby church and business conference center.

“The idea was to organize an off-site atmosphere of teamwork and preparation where the students could take a field trip, focus on the boot camp with little distractions,” Lee says. “From the pacing lessons to process of elimination strategies and heavily-tested content review, the boot camps were a big hit.”

We wanted a consistent, student-friendly product that delivered questions, assessments, and prep material comparable to what students experienced on the real test, and we got that college readiness support with MasteryPrep,

Barry Lee, Superintendent of Casey County Schools

Then, on the day of the real ACT, Lee set up a testing center in the school’s gym, which was different than previous years where it took place in several classrooms. “Instead of 20 proctors delivering 20 different messages, we had one central location where a consistent message would be delivered,” Lee says. “The students spaced out more, got away from their desks, and experienced an arena-style testing, big game-day environment where all of them were achieving the same goals.”

Throughout the school year, Lee says, the high school incorporates MasteryPrep Bell Ringers and ACT prep content into its core curriculum courses. “One of our biggest accomplishments over the last year was properly training our teachers on how to effectively implement the MasteryPrep material and intersperse it throughout their lesson plans,” Lee says. “It wasn’t just, ‘Here’s another product, now go use it.’ There was an organized, consistent approach to learning the context and benefits of us rolling out MasteryPrep within our high school.”

Casey County Schools serves 2,200 students from preschool to high school with 650 students in Grades 9-12.

“The staff are committed to supporting our students and will always focus on our students being life ready when they graduate,” Lee says. “Our goal is to ensure students graduate and are able to portray strong standards of resiliency, integrity, service, and excellence.”

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