College Board Class of 2026 SAT Report in New York: More Than 1.95 Million Test-Takers, Mean Score Rises 16 Points to 1045, Reading and Writing Back to Pre-Pandemic Level at 528
NEW YORK, New York County, New York — The College Board released its 2026 SAT Suite of Assessments Annual Report on September 29, as the SAT marks its 100th anniversary. According to the report, nearly two million students in the high school class of 2026 took the SAT at least once — 1,954,833 in the published count — a 2.5% decrease from the class of 2025 and the first decrease in participation since the pandemic-affected class of 2021. SAT School Day accounted for 65% of SAT takers in the class of 2026, with more than 10,000 schools offering the programme during the 2025–26 school year.
The mean total SAT score for the class of 2026 was 1045, a 16-point increase over the class of 2025 and the second consecutive year of score gains, with increases across all demographic groups. Reading and Writing scores rose 7 points to 528, returning to pre-pandemic levels, while Math scores improved 9 points to 517, though that remains below the class of 2020's pre-pandemic average of 523. In the class of 2026, 42% of SAT takers met or exceeded both the Reading and Writing and Math college and career readiness benchmarks, and more than 1.3 million students had SAT scores that affirmed or exceeded their high school GPA.
Priscilla Rodriguez, senior vice president of College Readiness Assessments at the College Board, commented on participation and scores in the announcement, which also lists free official practice resources including eight full-length practice tests in Bluebook. The report adds that more than four million students took a PSAT-related assessment during the 2025–26 school year, including approximately three million who took the PSAT/NMSQT, 378,000 who took the PSAT 10 and 1.09 million who took the PSAT 8/9.
来源链接：大学理事会新闻室（collegeboard.org）： https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/sat-turns-100-nearly-2-million-students-class-2026-take-test
Source: College Board
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