Georgia 47th in SAT, but numbers don't tell all

Georgia ranks 47^th in SAT scores this year. That’s down from 45^th last year. Georgia’s average SAT score was 1466 this year. Nationally the average was 1511.

Officials say the good new in the numbers is that Georgia’s African American and Hispanic students scored higher than their national counterparts. State officials say Georgia has to do better in Math and new curriculum should show results in a few years.

Meanwhile they warn that SAT rankings might be screwed. For Example, they say, Alabama does better than Massachusetts, mostly because only 8 percent of students there take the SAT. In Georgia 70 percent of students take the college entrance.