Fayette's SAT scores
surpass '02 by 13 points
Fayette County Schools welcomed
a bit of good news Monday after days of negative publicity.
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
results released this week for 2003 showed Fayette students again surpassed
both state and national averages by wide margins. More importantly to
administrators, though, scores at both Fayette County and Sandy Creek
high schools appeared to correct 2002's dismal results, the lowlight of
a five-year downward trend for students at those schools.
System-wide, Fayette students
who took the SAT in 2003 scored on average 1061, 35 points above the national
average and 77 points higher than the Georgia average. That's a 13-point
increase over last year's system-wide score, 1048, and breaks a stagnant
series of scores for the district that had remained virtually unchanged
since 1999.
Among the county's four high
schools, Fayette High recorded the largest one-year jump in 2003, bouncing
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