Best and Worst States for SAT Scores
Best and Worst States for SAT Scores
Student SAT scores are an important indicator of college preparedness. Where a child grows up and gets educated can dramatically alter his or her performance and opportunities in life. Here are the Best and Worst States for SAT Scores for 2008.
Editors Note: For the latest 2009 State Sat Scores got to State SAT Scores 2009
According to the CollegeBoard SAT 2008 College-Bound Seniors State SAT reports the Best and Worst States for SAT scores are:
Best States for SAT Scores
Rank State R M W Total
1. Iowa 608 613 586 1807
2. Illinois 594 611 588 1793
3. Minnesota 596 603 577 1776
4. Missouri 594 594 587 1775
5. South Dakota 598 602 567 1767
Worst States for SAT Scores
Rank State R M W Total
51. Maine 466 465 457 1388
50. Dist of Columbia 478 462 471 1411
49. South Carolina 488 496 475 1459
48. Hawaii 484 506 473 1463
47. Florida 497 496 476 1469
46. Georgia 494 495 483 1472
R- Critical Reading M-Mathematics W-Writing
It is also interesting to see where some of our most populated states are ranked.
California is ranked 35, New York 44 and Texas is 41. Employers may also want to take note of these rankings.
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Posted by Ed Kopko at 1/14/2009 7:51 AM 
Categories: Texas, South Carolina, Illinois, Education, Lifestyle, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Hawaii, New York, District of Columbia, California, Best and Worst States to Work, Florida
Categories: Texas, South Carolina, Illinois, Education, Lifestyle, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Hawaii, New York, District of Columbia, California, Best and Worst States to Work, Florida
Maine scores low because EVERY high school student has to take the SAT.
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The statistics you quoted are worthless without context. Most southern colleges & universities use the ACT, rather than the SAT. Only students planning to apply to non-local schools take the SAT, which makes the scores look far better than the scores for a state like Maine, for instance, where everyone has to take the SAT according to Adam, above. The situation is probably the same for Utah. The figures sample the cream of the crop and are worse that worthless, because they present a false picture of reality.
The idea that rotting schoolhouses, underpaid teachers and over-populated classes are going to produce superior students to ones that graduate from adequately-funded school systems is not only counter-intuitive, but makes no sense, whatever. Rich people send their children to expensive private schools, not because they like to waste money, but because money can indeed buy a better education. Do you want to argue otherwise?
This kind of claptrap was once used to prove that the segregated schools in Mississippi were the finest in the nation because of the high SAT scores of its high school graduates. Of course, very few high school graduates ever took the SAT, even the ones planning to apply to a college.
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