Most high schools have no students with perfect ACT scores. Van-Far High School has two.

Each year hundreds of thousands of high school (and some middle school) students report to ACT testing sites, clutching their photo IDs and pencils. They sit the prescribed number of feet apart, fill out the preliminary material, and open their test booklets.

Some are methodical in their approach, some haphazard. Some sail through the four subtests, some struggle. When time is called at the end of testing, some are disheartened, some are confident. Some dread the arrival of results, some look forward to it.

At Van-Far High School this year, two juniors did the near impossible. They scored perfect 36es. According to ACT, Inc., just 0.334 percent of all test takers earn a perfect score on the ACT in a given year.

The odds of one small high school scoring two of those perfect scores is astronomical.

Ennis Childs and Cameron Jones, both juniors, defied those odds, each receiving a perfect score.

“I’m very excited, and I’d like to thank the teachers I’ve had throughout my education,” said Childs. “I couldn’t have done it without them.”

Kim Pafford, principal of Van-Far middle and high schools, credited the duo for their work.

“Both Cameron and Ennis are exceptional students with a drive and focus to be successful,” Pafford said. “As academically focused as they both are, they are both exceptional human beings that are always respectful and represent Van-Far and the community in the best way possible.”

The ACT is, essentially, a college admissions test administered multiple times a year. There are four subtests in English, Reading, Science Reasoning, and Math. Students receive scores in each of those areas as well as a composite score which reflects their overall performance, according to ACT, Inc.

Many post-high school institutions use the ACT to determine a student’s readiness for college.