Bill Egan
The Grazing Ram: SAT Tutoring at NCHS Funded by NCCF Grant a Success
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In the fall of 2024, New Canaan High School created an SAT tutoring program available to all students. The program, in partnership with Carnegie Prep, a local leader in standardized test prep, offered eight rigorous courses with the goal of improving students’ scores for the School Day SAT in March. Need-based scholarships for the program were funded with a generous grant from the New Canaan Community Foundation (NCCF). The program was named Equal Access for SATs (EOS). The primary goal of EOS was to level the playing field for all students and improve college outcomes for program participants
The indispensable team who dedicated their time to the creation of this program included me, along with Principal William Egan, Assistant Principal Kristi Carriero, NCCF Program Officer Meg Soffen and the rest of the organization, Director of the College and Career Susan Carroll, Jerry Carnegie III, and his amazing instructors and staff at Carnegie Prep.
The EOS program sponsored 12 students with significant financial constraints to be able to pay for this program, all of whom were covered with a generous grant from the NCCF.
What types of score improvements did these students see? Overall, while overall New Canaan score improvements have not been published, the NCHS students who took part in Carnegie Prep courses saw significant improvements.
In terms of the EOS program, the students did significantly better from their PSAT to SAT scores with improvements ranging from 30 to 200 points.