Fair Lawn High Below Peer Group Average in SAT Scores

Fewer Fair Lawn High School students reached the state's SAT benchmarks than their school group peers, according to the Christie administration's 2011-2012 School Performance Reports.

Released Wednesday, the reports are a new version of the long-running School Reports Cards that have measured school performance on a variety of metrics since the 1990s.

The new reports use many of the same sources of data like student achievement, graduation and dropout rates, demographics and class sizes, but they also match each school up with 30 peer schools from across the state. Schools are matched based on demographics, percentage of low-income students, percentage of special needs students and percentage of limited English-speaking students.

Once matched, schools are compared to their peers and with state targets.

Fair Lawn's peer group members within the county are Cresskill High School, Dumont High School and Tenafly High School.

Fair Lawn High School's average combined SAT score of 1579 (544.5 in Math, 513.6 in Reading and 521.1 in Writing) is above the state's target score of 1550, but below its peer group average of 1622. It's six points lower than the high school's average combined SAT score of 1585 from 2010-2011.

2011-2012 Average SAT scores for Fair Lawn High School and Bergen County School Group Peers:

Average combined SAT score for past four years

Visit NJ Spotlight to view an interactive map of average total SAT scores for all New Jersey high schools in 2011-2012.

--

Follow Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook Patch on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to receive our daily newsletter in your inbox each morning