Fun Facts

SAT Scores As a Guide to Home Buying

 

 

From the Christian Science Monitor:

 

As go the schools, so goes the real estate.  This mantra among real estate brokers has long been a reality for both home-buyers and home-sellers.....

.....About 80 percent of Sycamore high school seniors last year took the SAT, averaging 579 in math and 566 in verbal, while 60 percent of Loveland seniors took the SAT, averaging 547 and 535, respectively. Cities on the coasts and in Southern states like Florida and Texas have the largest gaps in home prices and test scores. Brookline High School scored significantly higher on the 2004 SAT test than Melrose High School....

 

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