Canterbury Students Exceed National, State, and Local ACT and SAT Averages

On November 5, 2020, Canterbury School released its official 2019-2020 ACT and SAT scores. In comparison to national, state, and local scores, Canterbury students scored higher in subject categories and in the overall composite.
ACT composite scores show Canterbury at the top with a 27.9, while reports show that Lee County students and statewide public high school students scored a composite of 20.4 and 20.6 respectively. The reported composite score for public and private school students, nationally, was 20.6.

Not only is Canterbury leading in the ACT, but it is exceeding national, state, and local averages for the SAT as well, reporting a total average of 1306 for the Class of 2020. The class earned averages of 648 in math and 658 in evidence-based reading and writing. In comparison to the national average of 1051, the state average of 992, and the Lee County average of 974, Canterbury continues to lead in standardized testing results. 

Canterbury’s Director of College Guidance Melissa Wilson remarked, “Students at Canterbury School are highly motivated to learn across all academic disciplines. They read, discuss, delve, and debate. They are practiced in critical thinking and have learned to question, reason, and research. With established goals to attend the very best colleges and universities across our country, our students work hard to not only excel in standardized testing in an effort to open up collegiate opportunities, but more importantly to prepare themselves for true academic and personal excellence once they land on the campus of their dreams.”
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