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CHCCS students post highest SAT score in district history

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Staff

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students attained the highest average score in the district’s history on the 2009-10 Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).

This year’s average composite reading and math score was 1194, up from 1179 in 2009-10, while the average composite reading, math and writing score was 1776, up from 1751. The previous record composite reading and math score was 1189.

The district once again had the highest average SAT scores of any district in the state. The state average composite reading and math score increased two points to 1008 and the national average increased one point to 1017.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro students’ average reading score was 588, up from 581 in 2009-10, while their average math score was 606, up from 598. The average writing score was 582, compared with 572 in 2009-10.

East Chapel Hill High School was the highest-ranking public non-charter high school in the state in composite measures calculated with writing scores, with an average composite score of 1809. Carrboro High School ranked second with 1767, while Chapel Hill High School ranked fourth with 1735.

The average composite reading and math score for black students in the district decreased to 943 from last year’s record high 951, while Asian students averaged 1245, down from 1278. Latino students averaged 1085, up from 1051, and the average score for white students rose to a record high of 1229, from 1217.

District participation in the SAT rose 2 percent to 85 percent, compared with the state average of 63 percent.
A full report of the state’s SAT performance is available at dpi.state.nc.us/accountability/reporting/sat/2010

—Staff Reports

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