SAT Scores By Ethnicity
by pwceducationreform
PWCS students under perform their peers on the SAT in US, VA, Fairfax, and Loudoun Counties in just about every ethnicity.
Various officials in PWCS have asserted that the reason PWCS lags behind the US, VA, and our neighboring jurisdictions on the SAT is our diversity. PWCS just posted SAT scores for the district by ethnicity to the district web site, and we pulled those scores in an effort to verify that “defense”. We do not have SAT scores for economic groups, only for ethnic groups. The financial stability of a student’s family does play a role in their performance on tests like the SAT, and approximately 1/3 of PWC students are defined as “Economically Disadvantaged”, but we don’t have access to SAT scores for students by their families financial standing.
The data show that while PWCS’s ethnic diversity plays a role in our overall SAT scores as we do have a higher
