Dec 3, 2019, 1:21 PM
(from the Wall Street Journal) Earlier this year, the College Board, which administers the SAT, developed an "adversity score" for every U.S. high school, which measures how much adversity students face. The score accounts for 15 factors such as income level and crime rate in a school’s neighborhood. The test-maker abandoned the single-number measurement over the summer after a public outcry from educators and parents. Instead, it plans to give colleges a range of socioeconomic data on high schools and their neighborhoods.
The Wall Street Journal obtained the College Board adversity score and found that more than half of the 50 high schools with the highest unadjusted SAT scores are private. Top public magnet schools performed exceptionally well in adjusted SAT scores, meaning their scores jump when adversity is accounted for.
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