The ACT Prep Queen

The ACT Prep Queen is a tutoring service in Ruston, LA, run by Courtney Martin. She provides ACT test prep through in-person and virtual classes, individualized plans, and group-rate professional development courses for school districts around Louisiana. Her work draws on years of research and an extended trial and error process, and she uses a variety of test taking methods to prepare students. She has helped students in Louisiana and surrounding states raise their composite ACT scores by five points, with some students raising their score by eight points. She accepts the challenge of finding what makes the material click for an individual student, and she counts among her favorite feedback the students who tell her they walked into the testing room calmly and confidently, fully prepared for what was in front of them.

The business sits on West California Avenue, about a quarter mile from Wesley Chaple Road and roughly three quarters of a mile from South Barnett Springs Street. Huckleberry Trails Park is about eight tenths of a mile away, Cypress Springs Elementary School is about nine tenths of a mile away, and the Tanyard Creek neighborhood is about a mile away.

Courtney Martin's students have reported reaching the composite scores they needed for TOPS eligibility, and educators who have taken her professional development sessions describe her presentation methods as engaging and her knowledge level as excellent, with one educator of 40 years calling it one of the best trainings offered in that time. For families in Ruston and across Louisiana preparing for the ACT, that record of score gains and calmer test days is the work itself.