Cobb's Walton High Has Georgia's 3rd Highest SAT Score

Walton High School in Marietta had Georgia's 3rd highest SAT score in 2016, according to new Georgia Department of Education figures released on Tuesday.

Walton's score of 1730 tied the school with Johns Creek High in Fulton, which also reported a 1730 score.

The Gwinnett School of Math Science and Technology had the state's highest SAT score, 1870. Coming in second was Northview High, also in Fulton, with a score of 1810.

Walton High was Cobb's only school to finish in the top 10. The remaining top 10 schools came from Fulton, DeKalb and Muscogee counties, as well as Savannah.

Here are how other Cobb high schools performed:

• Allatoona High School -- 1504
• Campbell High School -- 1454
• Carlton J Kell High School -- 1486
• Harrison High School -- 1568
• Hillgrove High School -- 1507
• Kennesaw Mountain High School -- 1610
• Lassiter High School -- 1654
• Marietta High School -- 1431
• McEachern High School -- 1334
• North Cobb High School -- 1460
• Osborne High School -- not included
• Pebblebrook High School -- 1286
• Pope High School -- not included
• South Cobb High School -- 1320
• Sprayberry High School -- 1433
• Wheeler High School -- 1635

• You can see how your school did in more detail by clicking here and downloading the 2016 High School Results on traditional SAT.

Overall, the department said Georgia students increased their scores on every section of the traditional SAT in 2016. On the new SAT, a redesigned test with a different scoring system, Georgia students outperformed the national average, and ranked 36th in the nation.

A total of 69,922 students in the class of 2016 took the SAT (old or new) at least once. On the “old” SAT, Georgia’s class of 2016 recorded a mean composite score of 1459 – up nine points since 2015, when the mean score was 1450.

Some students in Georgia’s class of 2016 took the redesigned SAT, which scores students in evidence-based reading and writing and math. On the new SAT, Georgia students recorded a mean total score of 976 – outperforming the national mean of 972.

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