<p>KC, Respectfully, 217 was the highest score ever for our state and it happened once, in 2007, and it was the score this year. pretty sure my kid was in elementary school back in 2007. It’s been awhile regardless. his score, 216, was the second highest score ever, and only occurred one time, in 2011. The rest of the time, the score in our home state has been either 214 or 215, BELOW my kid’s score. The score in record high 2012 was 215. So a 3 point jump for a state that was either 214 or 215 for approximately 11 of the last 13 years is a big jump for such a steady state. Additionally, I only became aware of the 2007 score about 2 weeks ago so I spent the last 11 months thinking his score was the high score for his state. You are lucky to have prognostic abilities considerably better than mine. </p>
<p>Also, using the commended cutoff was in some degree useless as it was a national score, and not reflective of our state’s score and it was the state score that mattered.</p>