This year’s SAT scores for Hall County public school students topped those for the state and country.
The state Department of Education (GDOE) announced Tuesday that for the eighth year in a row the Georgia class of 2025 recorded a mean score of 1029, 33 points higher than the national average of 996.
Hall County’s students scored 1043. Students in the Gainesville City School System (GCSS) recorded a 1017. Forsyth County led the state with an 1178.
Click here to see how every public school system in the state fared: SAT District Summary Report 2024_2025.xlsx And here to see the results for each school: SAT High School Summary Report 2024_2025.xlsx
Georgia’s public-school class of 2025 recorded a mean score of 526 on the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (ERW) portion of the assessment and a mean score of 502 on the math portion. That’s compared to averages of 508 and 488, respectively, for students in the nation’s public schools.
“Even as participation increases, Georgia students continue to outperform their peers across the nation on the SAT – a testament to the hard work of Georgia’s students, teachers, leaders, and families and the work we’ve done to invest in academic recovery and prepare all students for life,” State Schools Supt. Richard Woods said. “This reflects our Student Bill of Rights in action, ensuring every student in Georgia has the chance to succeed, no matter their path after graduation.”
Georgia students’ mean score decreased slightly compared to 2024, when the mean was 1030. Participation in Georgia increased, which sometimes leads to moderate drops in performance – 55% of Georgia’s class of 2025 took the SAT at some point during high school, compared to 52% of the class of 2024 and 50% of the class of 2023.