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A-B Among the Best Mass Schools for SAT Performance
See which schools had the highest scores this year.
By Roberto Scalese
The College Board has released its annual survey of average SAT scores for schools. Boston.com has a slideshow with the top 15 schools. There are a lot of schools you'd expect at the top of the list in Massachusetts.
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School earned the No. 3 spot on the list, with a total mean score of 1876. That's a Reading mean score of 612, Math mean score of 648 and a writing mean of 616. The total number of test takers was 464, according to the Boston.com gallery.
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Topping the list? The Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, a magnet school in Worcester, Mass. It's the Worcester version of Boston Latin, which ranked number four on the annual list. The academy had a mean score of 2042, which is about a 1400 on the old SAT scoring system that you remember from high school.
Other top-performing schools include Lexington, Concord-Carlisle, Newton South and Wellesley. Check out the full slideshow at boston.com.
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