How Elmwood High School Achieved Record ACT® Scores

Thomas Sauve, the middle and high school principal of Elmwood School District in Wisconsin, first heard about Progress Learning in an unexpected way: on the way to a bar after a state principal’s convention in Green Bay.

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 Progress Learning.

This is Elmwood High School’s second year using Progress Learning. In their first year, they only used the benchmark assessments. This year, they’ve expanded to include both 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.