NJ SAT Scores Released In 2022: See How Parsippany Scored

PARSIPPANY, NJ — Amid questions of learning loss in the Garden State during COVID-19 and canceled state assessments, the Murphy administration recently released its annual School Performance Reports for the 2020-21 school year.

Although benchmark performance tests have been put on hold during the 2020 and 2021 school years, other barometers of student learning were revealed in the report, including student graduation rate, absenteeism and SAT scores, the latter of which is still considered the primary standardized test that judges a student's college qualifications.

The Parsippany-Troy Hills School District scored a 1,191 average. During the 2020-21 school year, the average math score for the SAT in New Jersey was 557; the average reading/writing score was 560, with an average combined score of roughly 1,110 — up from an average 1,072 the year before. A perfect score on the test would be a combined 1,600, or 800 in each section.

New Jersey also saw a 30 percent increase between 2018-19 and 2020-21 in the number of students who missed more than 10 days of school (labeled as 'chronic absenteeism in the report'), totaling over 170,600 students, or 13.1 percent of students in the state. The absenteeism rate was not reported in 2019-20 because of a federal waiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fewer high school students in the Garden State took the college preparatory ACT and SAT tests than in previous years, according to the report, with experts noting that the drop could stem from many colleges eliminating the test score requirement in college applications.

But the SAT tests as we know it may be a thing of the past, according to a report from NBC News stating that the SAT will be administered entirely online as a shorter, more comprehensive test beginning in 2023. Less than half of New Jersey high school seniors took the test in 2020-21, according to the report.

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