Fayette County Public Schools maintained its place as one of the state’s top-performing districts on the 2024 SAT, according to results released by the College Board.
Fayette County Public Schools posted a total mean score of 1116, 86 points higher than the state average and 121 points higher than the national average. Fayette ranks as the second highest total mean among Georgia districts with at least 600 test takers. Fayette County Public Schools had 1,049 total test takers.
County averages of 566 for the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (ERW) portion of the assessment and 550 for the math portion also greatly outpaced the state and nation.
McIntosh ranked tops in the county with a total mean of 1180, an ERW score of 594, and a math score of 586. That was good enough for 15th in the state.
Starr’s Mill’s posted a mean of 1170, good for 19th in the state. Whitewater posted a mean of 1098, Sandy Creek 1050, and Fayette County High 1010.
For the seventh year in a row, Georgia public-school students outperformed their counterparts in the nation’s public schools on the SAT – specifically, Georgia public-school students recorded a mean score of 1030, 35 points higher than the national average for public-school students of 995.
Georgia’s public-school class of 2024 recorded a mean score of 527 on the ERW portion of the assessment, and a mean score of 503 on the math portion. That’s compared to averages of 507 and 488, respectively, for students in the nation’s public schools.
“I am so proud of the class of 2024 and their teachers, parents, families, and the communities who supported them,” State School Superintendent Richard Woods said. “We continue to see Georgia students outpacing the national average on the SAT and ACT and that’s a testament to the work we’ve done in Georgia to invest in our students’ academic recovery post-pandemic and create opportunities in our public schools that prepare every child for life.”
Posted 9/25/2024
