Heights Scores Above Peer Average on SATs, Report Says

Hasbrouck Heights High School scored above average amongst its peers on SAT scores last year according to figures released by the state Department of Education.

Hasbrouck Heights achieved a total composite score of 1528 over the average of 1503 in its peer group.

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. Previously used district factor groups have been done away with.

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.

Other high schools in Bergen which fall into the same peer group as Hasbrouck Heights are Lyndhurst, North Arlington and Wood-Ridge.

Although Hasbrouck Heights composite score is above its peer average it still falls below the state's target of 1550.

View the chart below to see how Heights fared against the peer average.

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

--Patch staff reports

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