Data and Visualizations

ACT Research

Explore ACT Dashboards

Use the interactive tools below, which are intended to answer questions and provide meaningful insights to help students, parents, educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders make informed decisions and improve education and career outcomes.

College and Career Readiness

ACT Graduating Class Data

Explore measures of college and career readiness, such as mean Composite and section scores and benchmark attainment rates for the most recent ACT-tested high school graduating classes. Results are available for a pooled multi-state sample as well as individual states and the District of Columbia

2026 Graduating Class Data

Career Pathway & Industry Readiness

Career Pathway Readiness

Navigating the landscape of career exploration can be daunting, especially for high school students or adult learners who know what skills they have, but may not know how those skills relate to various career paths. Use this dashboard to navigate career opportunities, including future job openings and salary information, alongside the benchmarks for each of the top occupation openings.

Career Exploration

Industry Readiness

This dashboard is designed to assist economic and workforce developers as they analyze the foundational skills in demand across major industry sectors and allows them to explore readiness benchmarks by industry sector. Occupational education requirements and earnings trends are provided to show the relationship between education, skills, and wages.

Industry Readiness
 

Reentering the Workforce Following Incarceration

This dashboard is designed to help prisoners who earn a National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) from ACT find work in a nearby Work Ready Community (WRC) and create awareness about the organizations that hire based on NCRC in the area. The colored dots in this dual axis map correspond to prisons and the size of each dot corresponds to the number of occupational training programs offered at each prison. The colors of each dot correspond to the region. The grayed-out counties on the map represent ACT’s WRCs. Clicking on any of WRCs will open a new browser page with information on the WRC selected.

Prisons and Work Ready Communities

Higher Education

Enrollment Management

Explore ACT data using interactive dashboards designed to inform higher education recruitment, enrollment, and success strategies.

  • Superscores Dashboard
  • College Student Mobility Dashboard
  • College Enrollment and Degree Attainment Dashboard 
Enrollment Management Dashboards

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