An earlier version of this article gave Colorado’s 2025 grade-11 SAT figures as 79.0 percent in reading and writing and 43.9 percent in mathematics. Those numbers are Lewis-Palmer District 38’s own. They were read from the district row of the Colorado Department of Education’s summary file rather than the state row. Colorado’s figures for that year were 61.5 percent and 32.5 percent.
The error understated the district. On this measure Lewis-Palmer High and Palmer Ridge High stand roughly sixteen to nineteen points above the state in reading and writing rather than level with it, and both are clear of the state in mathematics. The article drew the wrong conclusion from the comparison, calling the high-school picture “solid but unremarkable” and its margin there narrower than in grades 3 to 8. That passage has been rewritten. The table now also carries Colorado’s 2024 figures, which were previously left blank.
The same table and the surrounding text described these percentages as College Board benchmark rates. They are Colorado’s own met-or-exceeded measure. The state’s files carry the College Board’s college-readiness benchmark in a separate field and do not use it in the published percentages. That wording has been corrected throughout.
The error surfaced while reporting the 2026 results, when the state row was read again from the same file and did not match what this article had published.
