DO YOU HAVE NUMBERS TO BACK THAT UP?

Yes, we do! All of the information on this page is taken from Bolchazy.com, "The Latin Advantage"

•SAT SCORES

Studies conducted by the Educational Testing Service show that Latin students consistently outperform other students on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Assessment Test.

SAT VERBAL SCORES*

	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Latin students	648	647	654	662	665
All students	504	505	505	505	505
French students	625	623	627	632	636
German students	625	624	617	623	621
Spanish students	576	581	583	590	589
Hebrew students	552	551	634	636	623

*Taken from Tables 7-3 and 7-4 in College-Bound Seniors: A Profile of SAT Program Test Takers

•COLLEGE GPA

A study of freshman college student performance conducted by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1985 yielded the following results:

Language studied	GPA
Latin	2.89
French	2.78
German	2.77
Spanish	2.76
None	2.58

•VOCABULARY SKILLS

In Philadelphia, students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades received 15 to 20 minutes of daily instruction in Latin for one year. The performance of the Latin students was one full year higher on the Vocabulary Subtest of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) than the performance of matched control students who had not studied Latin.

•INCREASED IMPROVEMENT IN OTHER SUBJECTS

	Sixth-grade students in Indianapolis who studied Latin for 30 minutes each day for 5 months advanced 9 months in their math problem-solving abilities. In addition, the students exhibited the following advances in other areas:
	8 months in world knowledge
	One year in reading
	13 months in language
	7 months in social studies

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