Ninety percent of CHS tenth-graders who took the test met the college and career readiness benchmark whereas the district percentage is 83, the state percentage is 46, and the national percentage of sophomores taking the PSAT meeting this benchmark is 47 percent. All of CHS tenth-graders met the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, or ERW, benchmark and 90 percent met the math benchmark.
Sixty-seven percent of Caribou’s eleventh-graders met both math and ERW benchmarks, with 93 percent meeting the ERW. Sixty-four percent of juniors in the district met both benchmarks while the state and national percentages are 40 and 48, respectively.
Students in Caribou also received higher mean scores. Tenth-graders had a total mean score of 1,053 with a standard deviation of 87. District sophomores received a 1,033 mean with a standard deviation of 99, state tenth-graders had 929 with a standard deviation of 158. Nationally, sophomores received a mean of 931 with a standard deviation of 176.
Juniors also scored a bit higher, with a mean total score of 1,015 with a standard deviation of 122. Eleventh-graders in the district received 1,011 with a 119 standard deviation. The state mean was 977 with a standard deviation of 174, and the national average for juniors was 1,008 with a standard deviation of 193.
“We’re really proud of our kids,” said Guidance Counselor Mark Pinette. “We’re trying to create a rigorous, college-going culture in Caribou High School and I think our kids demonstrated, by virtue of the scores on this test, that we’re doing something right.”
