Eight students took the SAT last spring, down from 60 in a typical year, said Anna Brown, a guidance counselor at Cuba High School. In Cuba, on the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico, around two-thirds of high school students have roots with the tribe. The rate was far lower for Indigenous students, with only 11% of high school juniors in that group taking the test. Logistical complications from the virus spurred New Mexico to get a waiver from federal testing requirements.Įxactly 25% of eligible high school juniors took the test this spring in New Mexico, according to data released by the state’s Public Education Department this week. Around a dozen states including Ohio and New Jersey require students to take the SAT or list it as one of the options to fulfill federal requirements for standardized testing.īut the pandemic made it harder for students nationwide to take the SAT. The state had planned to require high school juniors to take the English and Math exams this spring, replacing previous statewide assessments. There were deep differences in high school juniors’ participation according to racial and ethnic groups, with particularly low tallies among Indigenous students, data released by New Mexico’s education department show. Those disparities were stark this spring as high school students were offered the test but didn’t have to take it. (AP) - New Mexico students will take the SAT in spring 2022 as the state phases in a pandemic-delayed testing requirement aimed at increasing participation that varies widely by racial and ethnic groups.

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