Each Arizona high-school test (Grade 11 ACT ELA, Grade 11 ACT Math, Grade 11 Science, Grade 9 ELA, Grade 10 ELA, Grade 11 ELA, Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II) is scored on its own scale and sorted into performance levels. Pick a test to see the score range for every level, year by year, plus how students scored statewide.
Look up a high-school percentile →Each test's newest score scale and proficiency line, and every year we have.
| Test | Score scale | The proficiency line | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 ACT ELA | 1–36 | Proficient from 19 | 2022 to 2026 |
| Grade 11 ACT Math | 1–36 | Proficient from 19 | 2022 to 2026 |
| Grade 11 Science | 1200–1500 | Proficient from 1350 | 2022 to 2025 |
| Grade 9 ELA | 2454–2664 | Proficient from 2577 | 2018 and 2019 |
| Grade 10 ELA | 2458–2668 | Proficient from 2581 | 2018 and 2019 |
| Grade 11 ELA | 2465–2675 | Proficient from 2585 | 2018 and 2019 |
| Algebra I | 3577–3787 | Proficient from 3681 | 2018 and 2019 |
| Geometry | 3609–3819 | Proficient from 3697 | 2018 and 2019 |
| Algebra II | 3629–3839 | Proficient from 3711 | 2018 and 2019 |
ACT ELA and ACT Math are Arizona's high-school test since spring 2022: every public school student in the grade 11 class takes the ACT with Writing at school in the spring, and ACT ELA is the average of the English, Reading and Writing scores. Science is the AzSCI science test, taken by the same grade 11 class each spring (2022 to 2025). The 2018 and 2019 tests are AzMERIT end-of-course tests: ELA 9, 10 and 11 at the end of each year's English course, and Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II at the end of each course. They count every test given that school year (summer, fall and spring), with each student's highest score, and the math courses include middle-school students who took the course early (about one Algebra I tester in five was in grade 8), counted at their middle school. In 2019 about 12,000 juniors at 54 schools took the ACT or SAT in place of the grade 11 tests, so they are not in the 2019 grade 11 results. Every result counts students enrolled in an Arizona public school (district or charter), at the school where they tested. For 2022 Arizona published only the percentage of students at each level, not how many students tested, so 2022 results are shown as percentages.
More on who is counted, and how: see how we count.