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SAT results show slight drop in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County scores

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Published: August 26, 2008

Updated: 08/26/2008 06:34 pm

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School students' SAT scores dropped four points last school year from 2006-07, the state said today.

Forsyth students scored an average of 1,497 on the critical-reading, math and writing sections of the SAT last year, down from the 2006-07 average of 1,501.

The local average SAT score ranked above the state average for the fourth consecutive year, school system officials said.

The state average last year was 1 , 489 and the national average was 1,511.

The highest possible score is 2,400.

"We have never placed a great emphasis on the importance of SAT scores as a district performance measure, and so we see both increases and decreases in the scores as part of the differences in individual test-takers from year to year," Superintendent Don Martin said.

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