Glen Rock Students Average 1689 on SAT, Better Than Peer Group Average

Seven out of ten Glen Rock High School students met the state's SAT benchmarks last school year. Among its 30 school group peers with similar demographics, the cumulative score is slightly above average, 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.

Glen Rock's county peers are Ridgewood, Northern Valley, Ramapo HS, Midland Park HS, and Rutherford.

Students at the borough high school in 2011-2012 averaged a combined SAT score of 1689 (585.3 in Math, 548.9 in Reading and 554.5 in Writing), above the state's target score of 1550. The Glen Rock score is two points higher than the peer average of 1687.

2011-2012 Average SAT scores for Glen Rock 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.