ACT Case Study: How Elmwood High School Achieved Record ACT Scores with Horizon Education

Thomas Sauve, the middle and high school principal of Elmwood School District in Wisconsin, first heard about Horizon Education in an unexpected way: on the way to a bar after a state principal’s convention in Green Bay.
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He was talking about how he wanted to improve his school’s ACT scores, when Tim, the principal at Two Rivers High School, spun around and said, “I’ve got something for you!” The two started talking and Thomas learned about Horizon Education.
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This is Elmwood High School’s second year using Horizon Education. In their first year, they only used Horizon's benchmark assessments. This year, they've expanded to include both Horizon’s benchmark assessments and curriculum for the ACT. Freshman and sophomore students take the benchmark assessments twice a year. Juniors take them three times a year, plus the actual ACT in spring.

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"Our results speak for themselves. I really believe in this product. It’s been good for us, it’s been good for our kids. It’s helped our staff hone in on areas where we can improve and also highlight the areas where we’re doing very well. Just having another set of data to inform our instruction has been really important and has been really good for us.”