Ten D303 Grads Earn Perfect SAT Scores

Ten students from St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 high schools posted perfect scores on the 2012 SAT college entrance exam, and overall scores for the District increased from 2011 to 2012 in mathematics, reading, and writing.

Six members of the St. Charles East High School class of ’12 earned a perfect score on at least one SAT test. One student earned perfect scores on the mathematics test and the subject area test in mathematics. One other student had a perfect score on the mathematics subject area test. Other students had perfect scores on the writing test and the critical reading test.

Four members of the St. Charles North High School class of ’12 earned perfect scores on the mathematics subject area test. One student had perfect scores on the mathematics test and the subject area tests in mathematics and physics.

District 303’s average reading score on the 2012 SAT exam was 595 out of a possible 800, an increase of 18 points from 2011. District 303’s average mathematics score was 623 out of 800, an increase of eight points from last year. District 303’s average writing score was 573 out of a possible 800, an increase of 9 points from 2011. The SAT scores reflect the achievement of 77 District 303 college-bound seniors who graduated in 2012. This was a decrease of seven students from the number of District 303 students who took the SAT in 2011.

Nationally, SAT scores decreased by one point in writing and reading and remained the same in mathematics. In Illinois, scores decreased between two and four points in all subjects. Nationwide the number of students taking the SAT increased by 1 percent while for the State of Illinois the number of students taking the SAT decreased by 1 percent.

District 303 Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Donald Schlomann, congratulated the students with perfect scores. “These scores, along with our ACT score increases and our increases of student success on Advanced Placement examinations further demonstrate that our students and our teachers are focusing their efforts on instruction in the classroom. As long as we concentrate on that interaction, every day, student success will follow.”

The SAT is generally used as the entrance examination by colleges and universities on the East and West coasts of the United States. By state law, the ACT is taken by all high school juniors while participation in the SAT is a decision made by individual students.

SOURCE: Community Unit School District 303