High school juniors will take the ACT (American College Testing) on Wednesday, April 23, beginning the school day at the regular start time of 7:30 a.m. Freshmen, sophomores and seniors will be on a delayed start that day, beginning school at 10:45 a.m.

Bus service for juniors will run as regularly scheduled. Freshmen, sophomores and seniors will be picked up three and one-half hours later than their normally-scheduled bus pick up time. For example, if they normally catch the bus at 6:45 a.m., their bus pickup time will be 10:15 a.m.

All students will be released at the regularly-scheduled end of the school day at 2:45 p.m. There will be no change to the regular afternoon bus schedule.

Juniors attending night school should attend during the day to be tested along with other eleventh grade students. Students will receive notification from their respective night school as to the location and time of their testing session.  

The modified schedule does not apply to the Fred N. Thomas Career Education Center, 2650 Eliot St.

Students who are not in attendance during the testing will be scheduled to make up the ACT exam on Wednesday, May 7.

The ACT is a college-entrance examination. As of spring 2001, Colorado law requires all high school juniors to take the ACT test to measure progress in English, reading, math and science.

High school state performance ratings for 2003 – excellent, high, average, low or unsatisfactory – will be based on ninth and tenth grade Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) scores in reading, writing and math and eleventh grade ACT results in reading, English and math. ACT science reasoning results are not factored into the state performance ratings.