McIntosh leads county with 1,654 score, in top 3% in Ga.; Starr’s Mill in top 5%; system at 1,567
High school students in Fayette County taking the SAT in 2016 exceeded the state and national averages while improving on their results from 2015.
School system spokesperson Melinda Berry-Dreisbach said Fayette students increased their scores on the 2016 SAT, giving the school system an average composite score of 1,567, a 30-point increase from 2015 when the score was 1,537.
Fayette also outperformed both the state and national average composite scores posting 108 points higher than Georgia’s average composite (1,459), and 81 points above the national average composite (1,486), Berry-Dreisbach said.
Fayette scored 529 in math, 529 in critical reading, and 509 in writing. Fayette students in all three component easily areas outpaced both state and national totals.
“All five high schools placed within the top 22 percent in the state, even when comparing scores to schools that had fewer than 100 test takers,” said Berry-Dreisbach. “All schools increased their scores this year with Fayette County High having a 77-point jump, the highest of all schools, with an average composite score of 1,456 compared to the 2015 average composite score of 1,379. The school ranks in the top 22 percent in the state.”
Berry-Dreisbach said McIntosh High had the second largest increase, 30 points, with an average composite score of 1,654. The school ranks in the top 3 percent in the state.
Also posting a double-digit increase, 13 points, was Starr’s Mill High with an average composite score of 1,622. The school ranks in the top five percent in the state.
Whitewater High had a seven-point increase with an average composite score of 1,535. The school ranks in the top 10 percent in the state.
Sandy Creek High posted a five-point increase with an average composite score of 1,469, ranking the school in the top 19 percent in the state, said Berry-Dreisbach.
