A national achievement test is given at SCS in the spring of each year to help inform the staff as to how well we are teaching and how well the students are learning. Our scores are consistently high. The results are recorded in percentile ranking, a comparison of our students to all other students of the same grade who took the test at the same time of a given year. When reading the percentile, it will make more sense to say it in this manner: "Summit Christian School did better than ____% of the nation."