Arizona’s Top 50 High Schools by 2016 SAT Score

The SAT is an entrance exam used by most colleges and universities to make admissions decisions. It is a multiple-choice, pencil-and-paper test on Math, Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Essay (optional).

What’s a Good SAT Score?

Prior to January 2016, the highest possible SAT score was 2400. As of March 2016, with the new redesign of the test, the highest possible score is 1600. The SAT score range is between 400 and 1600 for your total score, and 200-800 for each of your two subscores. One subscore is for Math, and one subscore is your combined Reading and Writing scores to make one “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing” score.

To determine what makes for good SAT scores relative to everyone else, it’s important to understand how SAT scoring works. Your total score out of 1600 (as well as your two sections subscores out of 800) corresponds to a percentile ranking. Your percentile tells you what percent of students you scored better than. So if you got a 60th-percentile score, you’ve scored better than 60% of all test-takers!

According to PrepScholar, an online SAT/ACT prep programs, the 50th-percentile SAT composite score – the average SAT score – is between 1050 and 1060. (The test is deliberately designed so that the average score hovers around 1000 on the 1600-point scale—about 500 per subsection). The average score for math is between 520 and 530 (520 is 49th-percentile and 530 is the 54th). The average SAT score for Evidence-Based Reading and Writing is between 530 (49th percentile) and 540 (53rd percentile).

Here are Top 50 Public High Schools in Arizona Ranked by 2016 SAT Scores compiled by Phoenix Business Journal

Arizona’s Top 50 High Schools by 2016 SAT Score

#1 Basis Scottsdale
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1445

#2 Basis Peoria
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1413

#3 Basis Chandler
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1394

#4 Basis Tucson North
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1381

#5 Basis Phoenix
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1359

#6 Basis Oro Valley
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1352

#7 University High School
School type: Public School
District: Tucson Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1332

#8 Basis Mesa
School type: Charter School
District: Basis Education Group
2016 Average SAT Score: 1319

#9 Great Heart Arete Preparatory
School type: Charter School
District: Great Heart Academies
2016 Average SAT Score: 1292

#10 Arizona College Prep Erie Campus
School type: Public School
District: Chandler Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1285

#11 Gilbert Classical Academy
School type: Public School
District: Gilbert Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1284

#12 Great Heart Scottsdale Preparatory
School type: Charter School
District: Great Heart Academies
2016 Average SAT Score: 1270

#13 Northland Preparatory Academy
School type: Charter School
District: Northland Preparatory Academy
2016 Average SAT Score: 1261

#14 Hamilton High School
School type: Public School
District: Chandler Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1252

#15 Academy of Tuscon High School
School type: Charter School
District: Academy Of Tucson, Inc.
2016 Average SAT Score: 1244

#16 Great Heart Veritas Preparatory
School type: Charter School
District: Great Heart Academies
2016 Average SAT Score: 1242

#17 Great Heart Glendale Preparatory Academy
School type: Charter School
District: Great Heart Academies
2016 Average SAT Score: 1242

#18 Flagstaff High School
School type: Public School
District: Flagstaff Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1236

#19 Sunnyslope High School
School type: Public School
District: Glendale Union High School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1228

#20 Tempe Preparatory Academy
School type: Charter School
District: Tempe Preparatory Academy
2016 Average SAT Score: 1227

#21 Great Heart Trivium Preparatory Academy
School type: Charter School
District: Great Heart Academies
2016 Average SAT Score: 1222

#22 Arizona School for the Arts
School type: Charter School
District: Arizona School for the Arts
2016 Average SAT Score: 1220

#23 Catalina Foothills High School
School type: Public School
District: Catalina Foothills School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1216

#24 Ironwood High School
School type: Public School
District: Peoria Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1210

#25 Paradise Valley High School
School type: Public School
District: Paradise Valley Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1207

#26 Heritage Academy
School type: Charter School
District: Heritage Academy Inc
2016 Average SAT Score: 1204

#27 Perry High School
School type: Public School
District: Chandler Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1203

#28 Desert Mountain High School
School type: Public School
District: Scottsdale Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1200

#29 Great Heart Chandler Preparatory
School type: Charter School
District: Great Heart Academies
2016 Average SAT Score: 1198

#30 Tri-City College Prep High School
School type: Charter School
District: Mary Ellen Halvorson Education Foundation
2016 Average SAT Score: 1197

#31 Chandler High School
School type: Public School
District: Chandler Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1194

#32 ASU Prep Academy-Polytechnic HS
District: ASU Preparatory Academy
2016 Average SAT Score: 1193

#33 Desert Vista High School
District: Tempe Union High School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1191

#34 Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson
School type: Charter School
District: Daisy Education Corporation
2016 Average SAT Score: 1190

#35 University High School
School type: Public School
District: Tolleson Union High School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1187

#36 Deer Valley High School
School type: Public School
District: Deer Valley Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1187

#37 Ironwood Ridge High School
School type: Public School
District: Amphitheater Public School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1187

#38 Paragon Science Academy
School type: Charter School
District: Paragon Education Corporation
2016 Average SAT Score: 1186

#39 Catcus Highs School
School type: Public School
District: Peoria Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1183

#40 Empire High School
School type: Public School
District: Vail Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1182

#41 Horizon High School
School type: Public School
District: Paradise Valley Unified School Distric
2016 Average SAT Score: 1181

#42 Lee Williams High School
School type: Public School
District: Kingman Unified School
2016 Average SAT Score: 1181

#43 Mountain View High School
School type: Public School
District: Mesa Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1181

#44 Benson High School
School type: Public School
District: Benson Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1179

#45 Liberty High School
School type: Public School
District: Peoria Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1178

#46 Red Mountain High School
School type: Public School
District: Mesa Public School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1178

#47 West-MEC Sunrise Mtn High School
School type: Public School
District: Peoria Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1178

#48 Basha High School
School type: Public School
District: Chandler Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1177

#49 Arizona Virtual Academy
District: Portable Practical Education Preparation Inc
2016 Average SAT Score: 1177

#50 Fountain Hills High School
School type: Public School
District: Fountain Hills Unified School District
2016 Average SAT Score: 1176

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