Bulloch County Schools administrators this week hailed a five-year upward trend in local high school graduates’ scores on the ACT and SAT college admissions tests in all tested subjects. However, the scores of Bulloch County’s 2016 graduates, while higher than those of 2015’s graduates, remained below the state and national averages on all three SAT test components. Meanwhile, Bulloch graduates’ average scores on the ACT significantly exceeded the national benchmark score in English and came within a fraction of a point of tying the benchmark score in reading, but remained below the ACT national benchmarks in math and science.