Arts Students Outperform Non-Arts Students on SAT (Average Points

							                                                                Arts Facts . . . SAT Scores and the Arts
                                                                Students with four years of high school arts
                                                                classes have higher SAT scores than students
                                                                with one-half year or less.




 Arts Students Outperform Non-Arts Students on SAT
   (Average Points Better on SAT by Arts Students)


120

                     100         104                                                             103
100                                                                                                      98
          89                                   93          91                       87
 80
                                                                       67
 60

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 20

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      1999         2000        2001        2002         2003        2004        2005        2006*      2007*


  •   Data from The College Board shows that students who take four years of arts and music classes while
      in high school score 98 points better on their SATs than students who took only one-half year or less
      (scores of 1,080 vs. 981, respectively).

  •   *The 2006 and 2007 data reflect the Critical Reading and Mathematics portions of the SAT only. The
      new Writing section of the test is excluded from this analysis for year-to-year comparison purposes.
      Students with four years of art and music classes averaged 532 on the Writing portion of the test—60
      points higher than students with one-half year or less of arts/music classes (472).

      Source: The College Board, 2007. 2007 College-Bound Seniors: Total Group Profile Report.




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