Benjamin Noa Raffier, a junior at St. John Paul the Great
Catholic High School in Potomac Shores, recently earned the highest possible
ACT composite score of 36.
Raffier is a member of the National Honor Society, the Science
National Honor Society, the Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Honor Society, the
Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica and the National English Honor Society. He is a
representative for his class in the Student Leadership Association, is
secretary for the Science National Honor Society, and tutors students after
school in math, science and Spanish. He is a varsity athlete on the swim team,
and runs cross-country and track and field.
Only around two-tenths of 1 percent of students who take the ACT
earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2018, only 3,741
out of more than 1.9 million graduates who took the ACT earned a top composite
score of 36.
© Arlington Catholic Herald 2019