The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees received a presentation about the SAT and PSAT scores from Oct. 23 at the meeting Monday. SMCISD students received scores below the state and country averages across the board.
For the SAT, Eileen Grose, San Marcos High School associate principal, said San Marcos High School students received an average score of 898, which was below the state average of 920. The average across the United States was 973. There has also been a decrease in the mean score from Fall of 2022 to Fall of 2023 then again at Fall of 2024.
Grose said for the PSAT or the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, the preliminary test that is taken before the SAT at the 11th grade level, SMCISD students also scored lower than the state and US average. SMCISD students’ mean score was 827. The state’s mean score was 909, and the US mean score was 949.
