Morris School District Sees SAT Scores Rise in Latest NJ Report Card
Over 97 percent of students who enter the Morris School District graduated from high school in 2010, according to the latest statistics in the New Jersey State Report Cards, released on Tuesday.
That is a full percentage higher than the class of 2009, which recorded a 96.3 percent graduate rate. The state average for 2009-10 was 94.7 percent, which also reflected an upward trend from the previous average of 93.3 percent.
The graduation rate was not the only figure that rose in the 2009-10 school year. Attendance rates in the high rose 1/10th a percentage point, from 94.9 percent to 95 percent.
The average SAT scores in mathematics also rose, while verbal and essay scores dropped slightly from 2008-09 to 2009-10, but remained about 30 points higher than the state average. Advanced placement in language arts literacy stayed nearly the same as in 2008-09, dropping from 24.9 percent to 24.2 percent, while math dropped a few percentage points, from 34.5 percent to 31.8 percent, yet also remained higher than the state average in 2009-10 of 18.7 percent for language arts proficiency and 24.3 percent for math.
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