Stanford Achievement Tests Results
Presented in Percentile Ranks
Spring 2010
Stanford Achievement Test scores are reported in several ways. For consistency, the measure called percentile ranks is often chosen as the reporting method. Percentile rank simply shows what percentage of scores fall at or below a specific score. For example, if a child’s reading score on the SAT is 68, it means that the child’s score is better than 68% of the children in the group that was tested. If a school's average percentile rank is 68, it means that the "average" student score at that school was better than 68% of the scores in the original norming group. It is important to note that the nationally normed percentile is 50. Scores above the norm are considered acceptable.
Note also that not all children at all grade levels take the same tests. Children in Kindergarten, First and Second grades take a test called “Environment” in place of Science and Social Studies. Likewise, students in grades 3-10 do not take the “Environment” test.