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This page explains how every number on LSATScoreConverter.com is produced: which LSAC or ABA source it comes from, what we calculate ourselves, and where the figures have limits. It applies to the converter, the calculator and every guide. Use it to trace any figure back to its original source.

1. What this page covers

This page documents every LSAT figure shown by the LSAT Score Converter and the rest of the site. Each figure is one of two kinds: a number published by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) or the American Bar Association (ABA), or a number we calculate from their data. Sections 2 to 5 cover the first kind and section 6 covers the second.

All of these figures are stored once, in two data files in the site's code, next to a note of where each came from. Pages read their numbers from those files instead of retyping them, so when a figure changes, every page that shows it changes with it.

2. Raw score to scaled score

Your raw score is the number of questions you answered correctly. LSAC turns it into a 120–180 scaled score with a conversion table built for each test form. LSAC does not publish that table for every test, so the site uses the table from one released form: April 2025 disclosed LSAT, Form LTDA03 (PDF).

That form had 77 scored questions: 25 each in its two Logical Reasoning sections and 27 in Reading Comprehension. On it, every raw score up to 15 converts to 120, and 76 or more correct converts to 180. Along the way, 8 scaled scores cannot be reached at all, because at some raw scores one more correct answer lifts the scaled score by more than one point.

The converter looks up the raw score you type in this table. The LSAT Score Calculator adds up your correct answers in each scored section, caps each section at its question count, then uses the same table. The LSAT Raw Score Conversion Chart prints the table in full. The converter and calculator run entirely in your browser, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

3. Percentiles

Percentiles come from LSAT Percentile Table: 2023–2026 Testing Years, last updated by LSAC in July 2026. For each scaled score, LSAC gives the percentage of scores from the 2023–2026 testing years that were lower. We copy those values exactly, to one decimal place, for every score on the scale.

So when the site says a 160 is higher than 71.1% of scores, that is LSAC's own figure. The LSAT Percentiles page lists the whole table.

LSAC's previous table, LSAT Percentile Table: 2021–2024 Testing Years (PDF), is kept only to show how percentiles moved between tables. It is never used for a current result.

4. Average score and test volume

The average LSAT score, 152.66 for the 2024–2025 testing year, comes from Table 1A of LSAT Technical Report TR 26-01 (May 2026, PDF), using the row for all test takers. LSAC counts each person once per testing year and averages the scores of anyone who tested more than once in that year. The same table gives the average for each earlier year back to 2018–2019, which the site uses to show the trend.

The number of LSATs administered, 196,177 in 2025–2026, comes from LSAC's Test Registrants and Test Takers report.

5. Law school medians

Law school LSAT medians come from the ABA's Standard 509 Required Disclosures, which every ABA-approved law school must file. We use the reports for the fall 2025 entering class. For the 14 schools we name individually, we copy the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile LSAT score from each school's report, using the "All" column. Their medians run from 170 to 174.

The counts across all schools are our tally, not ABA figures. We read all 196 Standard 509 reports for that class and counted them ourselves. The median of all school medians is 159. Of those schools, 91 had a median of 160 or higher, 48 had 165 or higher and 22 had 170 or higher. The highest median was 175, at Washington University in St. Louis, and the lowest was 139.

The guide What Is a Good LSAT Score? compares these medians with percentiles.

6. What we calculate ourselves

Some figures on the site are our own arithmetic on LSAC's tables. Wherever a page shows one, it says so. These are the calculations we make:

  • Median score. LSAC does not publish a median for its percentile table. We take the score where the share of lower scores crosses half: 153, because 46.9% of scores are lower than 153 and 50.4% are lower than 154.
  • Band shares. The share of scores between two points is the gap between two percentiles. For example, 17.4% of scores in the current table fell from 150 to 154. The LSAT Score Range guide uses these shares to show where scores fall.
  • Top share. "Top N%" is 100 minus the percentile, rounded to a whole number and never shown below 1%. A 160 is in the top 29%.
  • Raw score targets. The raw score needed for a target is the fewest correct answers that reach it in the conversion table. On the April 2025 form, a 165 needs 63 correct, which allows 14 misses.
  • Result labels. The short label the tools show with a score, such as "Competitive, top 29%", is our wording. It is based on the average score and the ABA medians above, not on an LSAC category.

7. Known limits

Every figure is only as good as its source, and some things the sources do not tell us:

  • Other forms convert differently. Each LSAT form has its own conversion table, so the same raw score on another test can land slightly higher or lower. A converted score is an estimate for guidance, not an official result. Our Disclaimer sets out what that means.
  • The score band width is not published. LSAC reports every score with a score band based on the standard error of measurement, but does not publish the band's width on its public site (LSAT Score Bands). We do not show a band width and the tools do not estimate one. The guide How Is the LSAT Scored? explains the band.
  • Percentiles count tests, not people. LSAC builds the table from every test taken in the window, canceled scores included, so a person who tested twice appears twice (Interpreting Recent LSAT Score Trends). That is why we write "higher than 71.1% of scores", not "better than 71.1% of test takers".
  • Percentiles shift each year. The same score can earn a different percentile in a new table. A 160 was higher than 74.6% of scores in the 2021–2024 table and is higher than 71.1% in the current one.
  • Medians describe one class. The ABA figures cover the fall 2025 entering class only. A school's median can move from one year to the next.

8. How often figures are refreshed

  • Percentiles: LSAC replaces its table by the end of July each year. We update ours after each release.
  • Average score and test volume: when LSAC publishes a new technical report or new test-taker counts.
  • Law school medians: when schools publish a new round of Standard 509 disclosures.
  • Conversion table: only if we move to a different released LSAC form. If we do, we will say so on this page.
  • Test format and scoring rules: when LSAC announces a change, such as the move toward in-center testing from the August 2026 LSAT (Evolving How We Deliver the LSAT to Increase Test Security and Test Taker Success).

We last checked every figure against its source on . Each page also shows the date it was last updated.

9. Automated checks

Pages are drafted with the help of software tools, including AI writing tools. Those tools do not supply the figures. Two automated checks run before a page is published or changed:

  • Data check. It compares every percentile, average, test count, law school median and conversion-table value in our data files with research notes that quote the LSAC and ABA sources. It also confirms the tables cover every score, never decrease, and agree with the reverse lookups the tools use.
  • Site check. It reads the built pages and flags broken internal links, link text that does not match the page it points to, missing structured data or breadcrumbs, any figure or date typed straight into a page instead of drawn from the data files, and any page whose content changed without a new "Last updated" date.

Our Editorial Policy covers how pages are written, checked and corrected.

10. Full source list

Every source the site relies on, and what we take from it:

Found a figure that does not match its source?

Email hello@lsatscoreconverter.com with the page address and a link to the source. We check every report against LSAC or the ABA.

If a figure on LSATScoreConverter.com ever disagrees with LSAC or the ABA, the source is right. We fix the figure, update this page if the method changed, and change the page's date.