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| March 22, 2000
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1998-99 ACT Average Composite Scores for Home Schooled Students by State
| Home Schooled | | Traditionally Schooled |
| State | Score | # Tested | Score | % of Graduates Tested ** |
| Alabama | 21.5 | 146 | 20.2 | 65 |
| Alaska | 25.1 | 12 | 21.1 | 35 |
| Arizona | 24.1 | 33 | 21.4 | 28 |
| Arkansas | 22.6 | 119 | 20.3 | 69 |
| California | 22.5 | 49 | 21.3 | 12 |
| Colorado | 23.0 | 120 | 21.5 | 62 |
| Connecticut | 25.7 | 10 | 21.6 | 3 |
| Delaware | * | * | 20.5 | 3 |
| Washington, D.C. | * | * | 18.6 | 13 |
| Florida | 22.2 | 116 | 20.6 | 39 |
| Georgia | 22.1 | 42 | 20.0 | 16 |
| Hawaii | 23.6 | 5 | 21.6 | 18 |
| Idaho | 22.6 | 60 | 21.4 | 60 |
| Illinois | 23.8 | 168 | 21.4 | 67 |
| Indiana | 23.0 | 79 | 21.2 | 19 |
| Iowa | 22.5 | 70 | 22.0 | 66 |
| Kansas | 23.3 | 127 | 21.5 | 75 |
| Kentucky | 21.9 | 105 | 20.1 | 68 |
| Louisiana | 21.2 | 123 | 19.6 | 76 |
| Maine | 25.3 | 6 | 22.1 | 4 |
| Maryland | 22.6 | 9 | 20.9 | 10 |
| Massachusetts | 24.1 | 7 | 22.0 | 6 |
| Michigan | 23.2 | 273 | 21.3 | 69 |
| Minnesota | 23.4 | 112 | 22.1 | 64 |
| Mississippi | 19.7 | 135 | 18.7 | 82 |
| Missouri | 23.7 | 197 | 21.6 | 67 |
| Montana | 23.8 | 36 | 21.8 | 54 |
| Nebraska | 23.8 | 68 | 21.7 | 73 |
| Nevada | 23.2 | 9 | 21.5 | 41 |
| New Hampshire | 24.2 | 6 | 22.2 | 5 |
| New Jersey | 21.0 | 10 | 20.7 | 4 |
| New Mexico | 22.2 | 78 | 20.1 | 64 |
| New York | 22.8 | 30 | 22.0 | 14 |
| North Carolina | 22.5 | 61 | 19.4 | 12 |
| North Dakota | 23.1 | 27 | 21.4 | 79 |
| Ohio | 22.1 | 178 | 21.4 | 59 |
| Oklahoma | 22.0 | 183 | 20.6 | 69 |
| Oregon | 24.5 | 22 | 22.6 | 11 |
| Pennsylvania | 23.5 | 46 | 21.4 | 7 |
| Rhode Island | 25.0 | 2 | 22.7 | 3 |
| South Carolina | 22.0 | 28 | 19.1 | 18 |
| South Dakota | 21.6 | 20 | 21.2 | 70 |
| Tennessee | 21.3 | 127 | 19.9 | 77 |
| Texas | 22.6 | 230 | 20.3 | 31 |
| Utah | 24.0 | 35 | 21.4 | 68 |
| Vermont | 17.5 | 2 | 21.9 | 9 |
| Virginia | 22.7 | 41 | 20.6 | 7 |
| Washington | 23.8 | 45 | 22.6 | 18 |
| West Virginia | 24.6 | 30 | 20.2 | 58 |
| Wisconsin | 23.9 | 157 | 22.3 | 67 |
| Wyoming | 22.1 | 22 | 21.4 | 66 |
| National Figures: | 22.7 | 3616 | 21.0 | 36% |
* No figures available for that state
** Totals for graduating seniors were obtained from Projections of High School Graduates by State and Race/Ethnicity 1996-2012, Copyright © by Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, February, 1998.
For the 1998-99 school year, 3,616 self-reporting home schooled students took the ACT with an average score of 22.7. The national average is 21.0. (A perfect score is 36.) It should be noted that the average number of students per state who took the ACT last year was 74. The state with the most home school participants was Michigan with 273 students who took the test. The states with the fewest home school test takers (excluding Delaware) were Rhode Island and Vermont, each with two participants.
| 1997-98 ACT Scores: | Home Schooling | Traditional |
| | 22.8 | 21.0 |
| 1996-97 ACT Scores: | Home Schooling | Traditional |
| | 22.5 | 21.0 |
| State by state figures for 1997-98 available on request. |
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