Illinois high-school test score ranges

Each Illinois high-school test (Grade 9 ELA, Grade 10 ELA, Grade 11 ELA, Grade 9 Math, Grade 10 Math, Grade 11 Math, Grade 9 Science, Grade 10 Science, Grade 11 Science, Grade 11 SAT Reading and Writing and Grade 11 SAT Math) is scored on its own scale and sorted into performance levels. Pick a test to see the score range for every level, year by year, plus how students scored statewide.

Guides by test

At a glance

Each test's newest score scale and proficiency line, and every year we have.

Who takes these tests

SAT (2018 to 2024): the SAT that Illinois gave in school each spring to every 11th grader, counting the 11th graders who received a valid score. Reading and Writing is the SAT's Evidence-Based Reading and Writing section score. Some 12th graders also took it because they had no valid 11th-grade score (about 2,000 to 7,000 a year); they are not counted here (from 2022, ISBE's own spreadsheet download adds them to its school, district and state figures). From 2025: the 11th graders who took the ACT, the 10th graders who took the PreACT Secure and the 9th graders who took the PreACT 9 Secure that spring, each counted in its own grade. Students who take the alternate assessment (DLM-AA) are not included. There was no test in 2020.

More on who is counted, and how: see how we count.