Dwight Morrow High Bests 93% of Peer Group in SAT Scores

More Dwight Morrow High School students reached the state's SAT benchmarks than 93 percent of their school group peers, according to the Christie administration's 2011-2012 School Performance Reports.

Released Wednesday, the reports are a new version of the long-running School Reports Cards that have measured school performance on a variety of metrics since the 1990s.

The new reports use many of the same sources of data like student achievement, graduation and dropout rates, demographics and class sizes, but they also match each school up with 30 peer schools from across the state. Schools are matched based on demographics, percentage of low-income students, percentage of special needs students and percentage of limited English-speaking students.

Once matched, schools are compared to their peers and with state targets.

Dwight Morrow's peer group members within the county include Elmwood Park's Memorial High School, Hackensack High School, Lodi High School, Ridgefield Park High School and Teaneck High School.

Dwight Morrow's average combined SAT score of 1426 (483.57 in Math, 464.02 in Reading and 478.28 in Writing) is below the state's target score of 1550, but still higher than 93 percent of its school groups peers. It's 17 points higher than the high school's average combined SAT score of 1409 from 2010-2011.

2011-2012 Average SAT scores for Dwight Morrow High School and Bergen County School Group Peers:

Average combined SAT score over past four years

Visit NJ Spotlight.com to view an interactive map of average total SAT scores for all New Jersey high schools in 2011-2012.