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The 25th percentile is the score that a quarter of a group scored at or below, and three-quarters scored above. For law schools, a 25th percentile LSAT means 25% of enrolled students scored at or beneath it. Percentiles also rank you nationally: about the 71st percentile shows where key scores fall.
By Ali Unar, JD candidate at Georgetown Law and founder of Lovare Institut. Last updated August 2026. Every figure on this page was verified in August 2026 against the sources listed below.
The 25th percentile is the value below which one quarter of a group falls, so 25% scored at or under it and 75% scored above. When a law school reports a 25th percentile LSAT of a given score, it means a quarter of its entering class scored at or below that number. The 25th percentile is often read as the lower edge of a school's competitive range.
Each ABA-approved law school publishes the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile LSAT scores of its entering class, and together they sketch the range of admitted scores. The 50th percentile is the median, the 25th marks the lower quarter, and the 75th marks the upper quarter. The table shows how to read each one for a school.
PercentileWhat it means for a school25th percentileA quarter of enrolled students scored at or below this LSAT50th percentile (median)Half scored at or below and half at or above this LSAT75th percentileThree-quarters scored at or below this LSAT
Look up the specific percentile scores for any school in your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures.
Your LSAT score also carries a national percentile that shows the share of test-takers you scored above, calculated by LSAC across recent years. Higher scaled scores map to sharply higher percentiles near the top of the 120 to 180 scale. The current percentile ranks for common benchmark scores are about the 71st percentile.
A good LSAT score sits at or above the medians, the 50th percentiles, of your target law schools on the 120 to 180 scale. Ideally you land near or above a school's 75th percentile, which strengthens both admission and scholarship odds. Compare your score to your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures.
The average LSAT score across all test-takers is in the low 150s, near the middle of the 120 to 180 scale, and corresponds to roughly the 50th national percentile. The mean moves slightly each testing year. For the current figure and its percentile, see the LSAC percentile tables (for example a 150 is about the 37th percentile, 160 the 71st, 165 the 85th, and 170 the 94th).
The LSAT is scored by converting your raw score, the number of correct answers, into a scaled 120 to 180 score using your form's conversion table, then attaching a national percentile. There is no penalty for wrong answers. Since August 2024 the scored sections are two Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section, plus one unscored variable section.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026