I was at high school meeting last week and at this meeting it was announced that in November, 100 students took a "pre-Accuplacer" exam. This exam tests general assessments in sentence skills, reading comprehension, arithmetic, elementary algebra and college-level mathematics. The testing assessment measures whether incoming college freshman students have the necessary skills for college or university study, or whether they would benefit from taking further practice or developmental courses designed to improve key academic skills.

Of the 100 students tested... only SEVEN, let me repeat that SEVEN, students placed proficient in ALL categories. That means if those seven students were to go to college today, they would be ready. The other 93 would need to take and pay for remedial non-credit classes AFTER they graduated from high school.

This seems to contradict the news that came out today about us being the top ranked school system in the United States...
Schools in Maryland have received another No. 1 national ranking, and one local school system had a big hand in achieving it,
according to the AP Report to the Nation
.For the fourth straight year, Maryland high school seniors ranked number one in the nation in passing Advanced Placement exams, with 29 percent of graduating seniors passing at least one AP exam with a score of 3 or above last year. The national average was 18 percent. The numbers were even higher in Montgomery County, where nearly half of graduating seniors passed an AP test. Montgomery County students accounted for 32 percent of students who passed a test statewide.While Maryland did rank number one nationally, there's still some concerns, as school systems in rural areas like Dorchester County do not have enough money to offer AP tests to its students.Elsewhere in the area, Virginia ranked No. 3 in the nation with 25.6 percent of graduating seniors registering a qualifying score in at least one AP exam. D.C. came in third from the bottom with 6.6 percent of graduating seniors passing an AP exam -- ahead of only Louisiana and Mississippi.