Five WCS Students Earn Perfect ACT Composites

Published February 23, 2018

Five more talented Williamson County Schools students join the ranks of those who achieved a perfect 36 composite on their ACT.

Brentwood High’s Hutson Staggs, Franklin High’s Sina Ghandi, Independence High’s Brent Lane and Sean Smith, and Ravenwood High’s Brendan Goodbred all aced the college readiness exam.

In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2017, only 2,760 out of more than 2 million graduates who took the ACT earned a perfect score. The ACT consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science, each scored on a scale of 1-36. A student’s composite score is the average of the four test scores. ACT scores are accepted by all major four-year colleges and universities across the U.S.