Tenafly, NJ SAT scores versus Palo Alto, CA SAT scores – more expensive is better!
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SiO2 Says:
November 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pmTenafly vs Palo Alto smackdown! I don’t know if Tenafly is a top school district in NJ but it comes up on this blog frequently.
Palo Alto average SAT scores:
http://pausd.org/community/board/downloads/item_011.pdf slide 11For class of 2007
Critical Reading (formerly Verbal): 624
Math: 655
Essay/Writing: 615
Total: 1894Tenafly:
http://education.state.nj.us/rc/rc07/dataselect.php?c=03;d=5160;s=050;lt=CD;st=CD&datasection=all
First of all, the most recent data is class of 07. What’s up?
Critical Reading (formerly Verbal): 572
Math: 619
Essay/Writing: 570
Total: 1761Take that!
Obviously there’s more to a school than SAT scores but this is mildly interesting.If you look at SAT point per $, PA really kicks butt.
Some other interesting things about Tenafly:
Hebrew is the 3rd most common language spoken at home, 5.3%.
Has 21 AP classes. That’s pretty cool. PA only has 16.
Tenafly’s per pupil spending is $14.8k vs $9.7k for PA.
Average class size is 18.8, vs 25 or so for PA.
Now, while I’d love to do some Tenafly (the 3rd best schools in New Jersey) vs Palo Alto (the best schools in the entire universe) comparisons – redfin doesn’t support Tenafly right now. So as a proxy, I’m going to have to use Long Island – which they do support. It’s going to be an interesting week!
December 14th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Interesting per pupil spending vs. SAT point comparison. It just goes to show that spending more doesn’t necessarily yield better results.
Another interesting statistic I came across recently said that the Mayo Clinic (arguably one of the best medical centers in the nation) spent drastically less on Medicare patients than a comparison hospital system in Texas, but with much better outcomes.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Source for my statement above:
http://healthpolicyblog.mayoclinic.org/2009/06/10/medicare-spending-disparities-and-why-more-spending-doesnt-mean-better-care/
December 14th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
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December 15th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I thought we would have dominated the Math section.