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SAT Trend Report

The SAT Trend Report provides year-over-year student score send trend data. To access trend reports, you must be assigned the detailed or summary reporting role by your institution’s access manager. You can view a cohort report of year-over-year score send trends for a specific graduating class, or an academic year report of year-over-year score send trends for all cohorts that sent scores in a specific academic year.

Cohort Trends

When viewing a report for a cohort that has yet to graduate, you can view the following score send trend data:

Score sends to date from that cohort (i.e., score sends from the class of 2021).
A comparison of score sends from the previous cohort at the same point in time in the previous year (i.e., score sends from the class of 2020 at the same time in the prior year).
A comparison of score sends from the previous cohort to date (if the previous cohort has not yet graduated) or score sends from the previous cohort as of their last year in high school (i.e., score sends from the class of 2020 at the end of their graduating year).

When viewing a report for a cohort that has graduated, you can view the following score send trend data:

Score sends from that cohort at the end of their graduating school year (i.e., class of 2020 by the end of their graduating school year).
A comparison of the score sends from the previous cohort at the end of their graduating school year (i.e., class of 2019 by the end of their graduating school year).

Academic Year Trends

When viewing a report for the current academic year, you can view the following score send trend data:

Score sends to date from all cohorts that sent you scores in the academic year (i.e., score sends from September 2020–August 2021).
A comparison of score sends from all cohorts in the previous academic year at the same point in time in that academic year (i.e., score sends in September 2019–August 2020 at the same time in that academic year).
A comparison of score sends from all cohorts at the end of the previous academic year (i.e., score sends at the end of August 2020).

When viewing a report for a previous academic year, you can view the following score send trend data:

Score sends from all cohorts in the academic year (i.e., score sends in September 2019–August 2020).
A comparison of score sends from all cohorts in the previous academic year (i.e., score sends in September 2018–August 2019).

Available Trend Reports

You can view an SAT score send trends dashboard or a detailed score send trends report.

Trends Dashboard

The Trend Report tab in the reporting portal opens a cohort-based trends dashboard. When accessing the dashboard from September–December, the cohort reported is the current academic year’s senior class. When accessing this dashboard from January–August, the cohort reported is the current academic year's junior class.

The trends dashboard report provides a score send snapshot of:

Cumulative score sends volume to date
Score sends by race/ethnicity. For non-U.S./U.S. territory institutions, the top three race/ethnicities that send scores are reported.
Score sends by student location. Student location is based on their home address.
Score sends from your top 5 U.S. states, countries, feeder high schools, and geomarkets.

Detailed Trends Report

You can run a detailed trends report from the trends dashboard by clicking the Run Detailed Report button. You can view a cohort report or an academic year report.

Cohort Report: A report of the current academic year's senior or junior class, or the prior year's graduating class.
Academic Year Report: A report of the current academic year, or a prior academic year (four previous academic years are available).

The following reports are provided in the detailed trends report:

Cumulative score send volume to date.
Monthly score send volume to date across cohorts (academic year reports only).
Score send volume and mean scores by demographics. The demographics reported include: gender, race/ethnicity, first-generation, and low socioeconomic status. This report also includes score send volume and mean scores by top 10 intended majors.
Score send volume and mean scores from your top five geomarkets. Students are assigned to a geomarket based on their high school. If that information is unavailable, their home address is used. View a map of geomarkets by region (.pdf/3.22 MB) or a lookup file matching ZIP codes to geomarkets (.xls/2.3 MB). You can compare your score senders to all test takers in each geomarket.
Score send volume and mean scores from your top five feeder high schools. A feeder high school is a high school that has students that send you scores. You can compare your score senders to all test takers at each feeder high school.
Score send volume and mean scores by U.S. state and by country (top 30). You can compare your score senders to all test takers in each U.S. state or country.
SAT Subject Test score send volume and mean scores by subject.

How Score Sends Are Counted

In the SAT Score Senders Volume by Month report, students who send their scores more than once in one month are counted once in that month. Students who send scores in multiple months are counted once in each month.
In every other report, each student who sends their scores to your institution is counted once, even if they’ve tested multiple times or sent their scores to your institution multiple times.
Statistics reported for an academic year include all score sends for that year.
Statistics reported for a cohort include all score sends for that cohort, regardless of the year they were sent.

Trends Report Notes

The Trend Report is updated daily.
Mean scores aren’t reported for populations below 10.
If a student sends scores from multiple administrations to your institution, only the most recent scores are used to calculate mean scores.
Student location for geographic reports use the student's home address as provided to College Board.
When viewing statistics in the cohort and/or academic year reports, you'll see arrows that indicate if score send volumes are up or down compared to the previous cohort/academic year report at the same point in time in the previous year.
If students provide updated information to College Board (e.g., address change, race/ethnicity update, etc.), the trend report will reflect these updates.

We're transitioning all student score information to the online Higher Education Reporting Portal and will no longer mail paper score reports to higher education institutions starting August 2022.