Glastonbury Students Outpace State, National Averages on SATs

Glastonbury students continued to significantly outperform their peers on the SATs, according to new performance numbers that were released late last month.

Scores in all three categories of the 2012 Scholastic Assessment Test—reading, math and writing—also remained the same or saw slight improvements over Glastonbury’s 2011 scores. Students scored an average of 559 on the reading portion of the test, the same as the average Glastonbury score in 2011. Connecticut averaged 509 in reading, with the national average at 496.

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In writing, Glastonbury students scored an average of 557, up a point from the 2011 average of 556. The state and national averages were 510 and 488, respectively.

Glastonbury students saw the biggest achievement leap in math, with a 6 point jump from an average of 580 in 2011 to 586 in 2012. The state average is 512 in math, and the national average is 5114.

In 2012, 1.6 million students took the test, the largest field since the inception of the SATs.

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