Walton and Wheeler students produced collective SAT scores in 2022 that are among the top 10 high schools in Georgia.
According to data released by the Georgia Department of Education, Walton’s 517 test-takers produced a combined score of 1,255, third in the state.
Wheeler, which had 296 students take the SAT this spring, had a score of 1,211, tied for 10th. Lassiter and Pope scores were right behind.
The Scholastic Aptitude Test is administered every spring for seniors. They are tested on evidence-based reading and writing and math.
The maximum score is 1,600 (achieved by a current Wheeler student in May, when he was a sophomore), with 800 scores being the limit in the two portions of the test.
The average individual SAT score is 1,068, and five of the six East Cobb high schools surpassed that in 2022.
Overall, students in the Cobb County School District produced a mean score of 1,111, according to a release issued Wednesday by the school district.
Those figures are higher than the national and statewide averages. The national mean score in 2022 is 1,028, and in Georgia it’s 1,052.
Cobb students posted a reading and writing mean score of 545 and a math mean score of 566. A total of 4,813 Cobb students took the test in May.
Although most of the 2022 scores are slightly down from 2021, an additional 1,362 Cobb students took the SAT this year, a jump of 30 percent from last year, according to the Cobb school district.
Cobb students also scored higher than their counterparts in large school districts in metro Atlanta, according to state education department figures.
Fulton’s mean score is mean score is 1,101, Gwinnett’s is 1,097, Cherokee’s is 1,091, Paulding’s is 1,032, Forsyth’s is 1,014, DeKalb’s is 1,000 and Atlanta’s is 947.
Fayette County schools led metro Atlanta with a mean score of 1,132.
“I cannot say enough about how proud I am of our teachers and the entire team,” Cobb Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said in the release. “Despite all the uncertainties and distractions of teaching and learning in a pandemic, our teachers remained focused on what is best for students. The commitment to high-quality classroom choices, supported by our Board during the pandemic, is a primary factor that led to the highest SAT scores in the metro area.”
What follows are full scores for the six high schools in East Cobb, followed by the Top 10 schools in the state.
You can read school-level results by clicking here and district-level results by clicking here.
The College Board has produced a further breakdown of test scores in Georgia and the nation by sex, race and test type.
| # Taking Test | Total Score Mean | Reading & Writing Mean | Math Mean | 2021 Mean | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kell HS | 233 | 1,063 | 545 | 519 | 1,076 |
| Lassiter HS | 383 | 1,186 | 597 | 590 | 1,176 |
| Pope HS | 290 | 1,178 | 598 | 579 | 1,205 |
| Sprayberry HS | 241 | 1,070 | 553 | 517 | 1,104 |
| Walton HS | 517 | 1,255 | 627 | 628 | 1,275 |
| Wheeler HS | 296 | 1,211 | 605 | 605 | 1,233 |
| Cobb | 4,813 | 1,111 | 566 | 545 | 1,107 |
| Georgia | 56,898 | 1,052 | 536 | 516 | 1,077 |
| Nation | 1.45M | 1,028 | 521 | 507 | 1,038 |
Top 10 Georgia public HS SAT results
- Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (Gwinnett), 1,386
- Northview (Fulton), 1,298
- Walton (Cobb), 1,255
- Chattahoochee (Fulton), 1,247
- Lambert (Forsyth), 1,240
- Alliance Academy (Forsyth), 1,232
- Alpharetta (Fulton), 1,223
- South Forsyth (Fulton), 1,216
- Johns Creek (Fulton), 1,216
- Wheeler (Cobb) and Columbus (Muscogee), 1,211
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