Table 226.10.

Number, percentage distribution, and SAT mean scores of high school seniors taking the SAT, by sex, race/ethnicity, first language learned, and highest level of parental education: 2017

Sex, race/ethnicity, first language learned, and highest level of parental education	Seniors who had taken the SAT		Mean score1
	Number (in thousands)	Percentage distribution	Total SAT score	Evidence-based reading and writing (ERW)	Math
1	2	3	4	5	6
All students	1,715	100.0	1060	533	527
Sex
Male	809	47.2	1070	532	538
Female	906	52.8	1050	534	516
Race/ethnicity
White	760	44.3	1118	565	553
Black	226	13.2	941	479	462
Hispanic	408	23.8	990	500	489
Asian	158	9.2	1181	569	612
Pacific Islander	4	0.2	986	498	488
American Indian/Alaska Native	8	0.5	963	486	477
Two or more races	57	3.3	1103	560	544
No response	94	5.5	961	475	485
First language learned
English only	1,139	66.4	1074	545	530
English and another language	319	18.6	1034	516	518
Another language	203	11.8	1049	513	537
No response	54	3.2	941	463	479
Highest level of parental education
No high school diploma	137	8.0	944	472	472
High school diploma	482	28.1	1003	507	497
Associate's degree	134	7.8	1036	525	511
Bachelor's degree	473	27.6	1118	562	556
Graduate degree	340	19.8	1177	591	586
No response	149	8.7	914	455	460

1 Possible scores on each SAT section range from 200 to 800, for a total possible score of 400 to 1600.

NOTE: The SAT was completely redesigned in 2016. The new SAT was first administered in March of 2016. This table reflects 2017 high school graduates who took the new SAT during high school. The data in this table include only test-takers from the 2017 graduating class who took the new SAT (93 percent of the cohort). These data do not factor in performance on the old SAT, and they set a new baseline for future year-to-year comparisons. If a student took the new SAT more than once, the most recent score on each section is used, along with the student's most recent responses to the SAT questionnaire. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: College Entrance Examination Board, SAT Suite of Assessments Annual Report: Total Group, 2017, retrieved November 21, 2017, from https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2017-total-group-sat-suite-assessments-annual-report.pdf. (This table was prepared November 2017.)