Asbury Park SAT Scores Released In 2022: See How Students Fared

ASBURY PARK, NJ - How well do Asbury Park School District students rank on the SAT compared to students elsewhere in the state?

Not great, according to new data released by the New Jersey Department of Education. In fact, the lowest-ranking district in the state, per the new data, was the Asbury Park School District.

The SAT is still considered the primary standardized test that judges a student's college qualifications. And even in the middle of a pandemic, they play an important role for New Jersey seniors who are already looking at colleges – even as testing has been delayed, or centers were closed because of the coronavirus in 2020 and 2021.

Patch compiled the combined SAT scores of districts across New Jersey, as well as the lists of scores in the two sections identified as "math" and "reading and writing."

Asbury Park ranked at No. 304 of 304 districts regarding combined scores with an average score of 782 (compared to the average statewide combined store of 1,117). The district also averaged a score of 387 in math (compared to an average statewide score of 560) and 395 in reading (an average statewide score of 557).

59 percent of Asbury Park students eligible to take the SATs participated during the 2020-21 school year.

A perfect score would be a combined 1600, or 800 in each section.

The district in the state that scored the highest on the overall average combined score was Monmouth County Vocational School District with an average SAT score of 1414, average math score of 713 and average reading/writing score of 701.

Less high school students in the Garden State took the college preparatory ACT and SAT tests in 2020-21 than in previous years, according to the annual data, with experts noting that the drop could stem from many colleges eliminating the test score requirement in college applications.

But the SAT tests as we know it may be a thing of the past, according to a report from NBC News stating that the SAT will be administered entirely online as a shorter, more comprehensive test beginning in 2023. Less than half of New Jersey high school seniors took the test in 2020-21, according to the report.