More Hispanic Students Prepared For College

More Hispanic high-school students were prepared for college in 2006 than they were just four years earlier, according to a report released by ACT.

Hispanic high-school graduates who took the college-admissions test in 2006 had, on average, higher combined scores than those who took it in 2002, and they also scored higher, on average, in each of the test’s subject areas — English, mathematics, reading, and science.

The average scores increased even as 19,026 more Hispanic students took the ACT in 2006 than in 2002.