 The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a research arm of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, compared the SAT data of students in rural areas of Pennsylvania to students in urban areas.From 2003 to 2005, the average total SAT score for students in rural Pennsylvania was 992, while urban students averaged 1,006.During the same period, 28 percent of 11th and 12th graders in rural school districts took the exam, compared to 32 percent of urban students in the same grades.