SAT

(Scholastic Assessment Test) scores for Fayette

County high school students district-wide climbed

17 points over last year's scores and remained

well above the state and national averages for

the 1998-99 year, according to information

released Tuesday by the school district.

The

system's averaged combined score for verbal and

math was 1,048, compared to last year's total of

1,031. The average combined score for the state

this year was 969, compared to a national average

of 1,016.

McIntosh

High School out-scored Fayette County High and

Sandy Creek High with a combined average of

1,093. Sandy Creek High had an average score of

1,020 and Fayette County High's combined total

was 1,008. McIntosh also had the highest

percentage (91.6 percent) taking the SAT,

followed by Fayette County High (90.2 percent)

and Sandy Creek High (78.6 percent).

According

to Larry Reeves, who summarized the results for

the school board, all Fayette County high schools

had an increase in total scores over 1998.

McIntosh

High School had an increase of 25 points in the

total score with an increase of 12 points in the

verbal and 13 points in the math sections. Sandy

Creek increased by 10 points in the total score

with an increase of eight points in the verbal

and two points in the math sections.

The

Fayette County school system had 88.2 percent of

its graduating seniors take the SAT, compared to

63 percent in the state and 43 percent

nation-wide.

The

college board's press release on the SAT will

appear on the College Board's Web site www.collegeboard.org , on College

Online.

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