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Notes:
| • | Nearly 10,500 more students were reading at or above the national average in 2002 than in 1998. | |
| • | This increase is more than triple the enrollment increase and double the increase in the number of students tested over the same period. | |
| • | The percentage of students scoring at or above the national average on SAT 9 Reading increased by 1% over 2001, and by 7% since 1998. | |
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The Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition (SAT 9) is a norm-referenced
test that compares student performance to the performance of a national
sample of students (norm group), rather than to the state standards. It
was selected by the state to measure basic skills.
The chart shows the percentage of students who scored at or above the
national average (also called the 50th percentile) each year from 1998
to 2002.
