The Texas ACT Council rewarded Lamar Consolidated High School for academic improvement by awarding the campus with a 2011 College Readiness Award.

Only 10 percent of Texas high schools will receive this recognition, which is based on "a significant increase in its ACT Composite score over the past five years, while at the same time increasing or maintaining the number of students taking the ACT Assessment."

The ACT is a curriculum-based achievement test that is aligned to the Texas curriculum. Colleges use the results of the test to measure if students are ready to do college-level academic work.