 During the same period, 28 percent of 11th and 12th graders in rural school districts took the exam, compared with 32 percent of urban students in the same grades.The average math and verbal scores were 495 and 497, respectively, for rural students, while urban test-takers averaged 499 and 507, respectively.From 2006–09, the Classrooms for the Future program provided public school districts in Pennsylvania with hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funding to buy laptop computers for each core curriculum high school class (English, science, history, and math) and to train teachers to optimize the computers' use.