Four Dist. 211 students are perfect on ACT

Four District 211 students achieved a 36 on the ACT examination, the highest possible composite score.

Sarah Gallo and John Kaczor from William Fremd High School, Kathryn Hasz from Schaumburg High School and Paul Organ from Hoffman Estates High School were recognized as four of fewer than 75 students in Illinois to receive a 36 on the ACT during the 2008-2009 school year.

The ACT, which is taken by nearly 60 percent of America's college-bound students as well as all juniors in Illinois as part of the Prairie State Achievement Examination, is comprised of tests in English, mathematics, reading, and science reasoning.

Each test is scored on a scale of 1-36, and a student's score is the average of the four tests. In the spring of 2009, 1.4 million students took the ACT exam, with less than one-tenth of 1 percent achieving a score of 36.