30 Houston schools with some of the worst SAT scores

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Walk into any major retailer in Houston, and you'll see the evidence all around you: summer is almost over. And while you're putting the No. 2 pencils and Trapper Keepers (yes, those still exist) in your shopping buggy, you start to think what those pencils may be used for.

The SATs.

While football rules the school in Texas, the SAT doesn't appear to - not for all campuses, at least. We analyzed the SAT scores of 90 Houston-area high school from 2014, the most recent data available, and found which high schools the worst combined SAT scores in town.

We looked at traditional high schools in Houston-area school districts, including Houston ISD, Humble ISD, Fort Bend ISD, among others. We omitted specialty high schools or high schools that are geared toward certain professions from this list.

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From there, we tabulated the math, reading and writing scores to give us a combined total, and then ranked the scores according to that final score. According to U.S News and World Report, the average SAT score was 1497 out of 2400.

Take a look at which Houston-area high schools had some of the worst SAT scores in 2014 in the gallery above.