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Texas students scored slightly higher than last year on the math portion of the SAT, but the state’s average scores in math, critical reading and writing fell below the national numbers, according to numbers released by the Texas Education Agency Tuesday.
The test, was taken by 1.5 million class of 2009 students nationwide and 141,733 public and private school seniors in Texas. Texas had 137,024 graduating seniors took the test last year. Texas students’ mean score in math was 506, a one point increase from 2008. The critical reading mean score was 486 and writing was 475 – a two point and five point drop, respectively.Nationally, the mean score was 515 for math, 501 for critical reading and 493 for writing. Scores nationally stayed the same in math and lost one point from 2008 in critical reading and writing.The number of public school students taking the test in Texas,112,485, was down by about 4,000 from the previous year.The TEA said a couple of factors could account for Texas students’ “mixed results.” They pointed out that a smaller number of students are taking the test more than once and that last year’s testing period occurred during the H1N1 flu outbreak. That outbreak closed down about 40 SAT testing sites in Texas, the state said.
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