Georgia High School SAT Scores, Class of 2025: Statewide 1037, Gwinnett's GSMST Leads at 1343

The average SAT score in Georgia was 1037 for the class of 2025, above the national average of 1029, across 44,722 public school students who took the test. That's per the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (GOSA), which uses each student's highest score. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GSMST) had the highest average of any Georgia high school with at least 100 test takers: 1343.

One caution shapes everything below: most Georgia graduates don't take the SAT. Against 123,911 graduates in the 2025 four-year cohort, the 44,722 takers are about 36%. At most schools, the SAT average describes the students who chose to take it, not the whole class.

The data comes from GOSA's downloadable SAT file for 2024-25 ("Highest" scores, published March 2026), joined to GOSA's 2024-25 graduation file for graduate counts. GOSA reports some counts as fractions; we've rounded them.

Top 30 Georgia high schools by SAT average, class of 2025

Public high schools with at least 100 SAT takers. Percent tested is SAT takers as a share of four-year-cohort graduates.

Source: GOSA downloadable data, SAT 2024-25 (highest scores) and Graduation Rate 2024-25. Ties are ordered by unrounded average. 179 Georgia public high schools had at least 100 SAT takers; their median average was 1051.

Read the percent-tested column first. Even among these 30 schools, the share of graduates who took the SAT ranges from 34% to 79%. Of the 178 schools with at least 100 takers and a graduate count, only 2 tested 90% or more of graduates, and 126 tested fewer than half. Some students who skip the SAT take the ACT instead: 12,390 Georgia public school students took the ACT in 2024-25, averaging 21.5.

Gwinnett, Fulton, Cobb and Forsyth dominate the list: 22 of the top 30 schools are in those four metro Atlanta districts. GSMST was the only school with at least 30 takers to average above 1330.

SAT averages in Georgia's largest school districts

Districts with at least 1,500 graduates in the class of 2025, ranked by SAT average.

Source: GOSA downloadable data, SAT 2024-25 (highest scores) and Graduation Rate 2024-25.

DeKalb is the outlier on participation: 74% of its graduates took the SAT, roughly twice the share of most large districts. Its 923 average reflects most of its class, while districts testing a quarter to a third of graduates report the scores of a smaller, more self-selected group. Compare districts with that in mind.

How this compares with Florida

Florida tests far more of its students: 80% of its class of 2025 took the SAT, averaging 995. Georgia's 1037 comes from about 36% of graduates. The two averages aren't comparable head to head; see Florida high school SAT scores.

What this means for you

• Judge a school's average by how many students it covers. A 1200 average from a quarter of the class tells you less than a 1100 from most of it.
• Know the Georgia scores that matter for money. The Zell Miller Scholarship requires a 1200 SAT (or 25 ACT) from a single test date, plus a 3.7 HOPE GPA; see HOPE vs. Zell Miller. In 2025, 46 of the 179 schools with at least 100 SAT takers averaged 1100 or more, and 20 averaged 1150 or more.
• Know the scores that matter for admission. UGA's in-state Early Action admits had a middle-50% SAT of 1370-1500; see UGA and Georgia Tech admissions.

Sources

• GOEWS Downloadable Data Repository, 2025: SAT 2024-25 (Highest) and Graduation Rate 2024-25 — Governor's Office of Student Achievement
• Downloadable Data — Governor's Office of Student Achievement