SAT score release dates for 2026-2027

For the fall 2026 SAT administrations, College Board is releasing scores 13 days after test day. Take the October 3, 2026 SAT and your scores post on October 16, 2026. The full calendar is below, checked against College Board’s dates and deadlines page and its score release dates page on August 27, 2026.

College Board’s own general wording is looser than its published calendar. The score release page says most scores from weekend tests are released 2 to 4 weeks after test day. Every published fall 2026 date is exactly 13 days out, so the calendar is the better number to work from.

The 2026-27 SAT calendar

Test date	Registration deadline	Change or cancel by	Scores released
Aug. 22, 2026	Aug. 7, 2026	Aug. 11, 2026	Sept. 4, 2026
Sept. 12, 2026	Aug. 28, 2026	Sept. 1, 2026	Sept. 25, 2026
Oct. 3, 2026	Sept. 18, 2026	Sept. 22, 2026	Oct. 16, 2026
Nov. 7, 2026	Oct. 23, 2026	Oct. 27, 2026	Nov. 20, 2026
Dec. 5, 2026	Nov. 20, 2026	Nov. 24, 2026	Dec. 18, 2026
March 6, 2027	Feb. 19, 2027	Feb. 23, 2027	Not yet published
May 1, 2027	Apr. 16, 2027	Apr. 20, 2027	Not yet published
June 5, 2027	May 21, 2027	May 25, 2027	Not yet published

Late registration is available for every one of these dates for an additional fee. All deadlines expire at 11:59 p.m. ET.

One deadline sits much earlier than the rest and catches people out. If you need to borrow a testing device from College Board rather than bring your own, you have to register at least 30 days before test day, which is roughly two weeks ahead of the ordinary registration deadline.

Spring 2027

College Board has posted the three spring 2027 test dates and their deadlines but not the score release dates. If the 13-day pattern holds you would expect release around mid-March, mid-May and mid-June 2027, but that is an inference from the fall calendar, not a published date. Check the source page before you build an application deadline around it.

What “released” means on the day

Release day is when the batch begins posting to student accounts, not a guaranteed timestamp for every individual. Scores from one administration do not all appear at the same minute, so a classmate seeing a score before you on the same morning is normal and does not indicate a problem with your test.

If a score is still missing several days after the release date, that is when it is worth contacting College Board rather than refreshing.

What is actually in the report

You get a total score on the 400-1600 scale and two section scores, Reading and Writing and Math, each on 200-800. Everything moves in 10-point steps, so a 1237 is not a possible score.

The report also shows how you performed across the four Reading and Writing content domains and the four Math content domains. Subscores and cross-test scores existed on the paper SAT and were removed in the digital format, so do not go looking for them.

Two benchmarks appear on the report: 480 for Reading and Writing and 530 for Math. College Board defines these as predicting a 75% likelihood of earning a C or higher in related first semester, credit-bearing college courses.

The percentile on your report

Your report shows an All Tester Percentile. College Board’s Fall 2026 Understanding Scores guide defines it as being “based on the actual scores of the past 3 cohorts of students who took the SAT in 12th grade for tests completed anywhere in the world.” Online score insights add country and state percentiles on top of that.

College Board publishes no lookup table for the All Tester Percentile, which means no third-party tool, ours included, can reproduce the exact number printed on your own report. What is published are two separate systems, the SAT User Group and Nationally Representative Sample percentiles. Our SAT percentile calculator uses those, and the percentile reference tables show the anchors: 1020 is the 50th percentile among SAT users, 1200 the 75th, 1360 the 90th and 1530 the 99th.

Expect the number on your report to differ from any of these. They are measuring different populations.

Sending scores to colleges

College Board’s guidance is that students choose to send scores to colleges, and that processing time varies by college once the scores arrive. That second half matters more than students expect: a college’s system showing your score as received can lag the release date by days.

Many colleges now accept self-reported scores on the application and only require an official send after admission. Check each college’s own instructions rather than paying for sends you may not need.

What to do between test day and release day

Nothing you do in those 13 days changes the score. If you are already planning a retake, the useful move is scoring practice tests properly in the meantime.

Bluebook scores its own full-length adaptive practice tests for you, and there is no conversion table for those. Where a table does exist is the linear paper practice tests, numbered 4 through 11, which College Board publishes raw-to-scaled tables for. Those paper tests have 66 Reading and Writing questions and 54 Math questions, a different scale from the adaptive test’s 54 and 44, which is why raw scores from one cannot be read against the other.

Our SAT practice test score calculator uses the official tables for exactly those eight tests, and the raw score conversion reference explains why every one of those lookups returns a range rather than a single number. If you want to model a target instead, the SAT score needed calculator works backwards from a goal, and the digital SAT score calculator covers the adaptive format.

If you are testing in school this fall

The fall 2026 in-school PSAT/NMSQT window runs October 1-30, 2026. That test uses the same 98-question, two-hour-14-minute adaptive shape as the SAT on a narrower 320-1520 scale.

Junior-year PSAT/NMSQT scores also produce a National Merit Selection Index, calculated as (2 x Reading and Writing + Math) divided by 10, on a 48-228 range. The PSAT score calculator and the National Merit Selection Index calculator handle both.

Verification note

Every date in the table above was read directly from College Board’s published pages on August 27, 2026. Test dates and deadlines do occasionally shift, and the spring 2027 release dates had not been posted at that point. If you are reading this months later, open the dates and deadlines page and confirm before acting on anything time-sensitive.