Academy for Careers in Television and Film: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#114 of 548 citywide · 957/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 30Q301
- SAT total, 2024
- 957
- Math
- 467
- Reading & writing
- 490
- Students counted
- 109
In 2024, students at Academy for Careers in Television and Film who sat the SAT averaged 957 out of 1600 — 467 on Math and 490 on Reading and Writing. That is 22 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Queens, where the average is 966, it is 9 points lower. Citywide it ranks 114 of 548. In Queens it is 25 of 92.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1042 in 2017 to 957 in 2024, down 85 points. The peak was 1042 in 2017 and the floor 936 in 2022, a spread of 106 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 48 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 38 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 84 of 453 in 2017 to 103 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 19 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 109 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 23% on Math and 46% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark. The two sections are far apart here: Reading and Writing clears the bar for a much larger share of students than Math does, which is usually where a prep plan starts.
The highest average in Queens that year belonged to Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, at 1463, 506 points ahead of Academy for Careers in Television and Film. A gap that size is a different admissions pool, not a different amount of preparation.
Eight years against the city
SAT total out of 1600. The dashed line is the citywide average for the same years, weighted by the number of students counted at each school.
Year by year
| Year | SAT total | Math | Reading & writing | Tested | College ready, math | College ready, R&W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1042 | 517 | 525 | 138 | 45% | 69% |
| 2018 | 1042 | 517 | 525 | 134 | 41% | 63% |
| 2019 | 1004 | 498 | 506 | 129 | 35% | 65% |
| 2020 | 977 | 493 | 484 | 138 | 37% | 45% |
| 2021 | 968 | 471 | 497 | 87 | 18% | 38% |
| 2022 | 936 | 453 | 483 | 117 | 19% | 45% |
| 2023 | 969 | 477 | 492 | 122 | 29% | 48% |
| 2024 | 957 | 467 | 490 | 109 | 23% | 46% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Queens, 2024 | 966 | 483 | 483 | 15,230 | — | — |
“Tested” is the number of students the DOE counted in that year’s average, not the size of the class. “College ready” is the share of those students who met the College Board benchmark on that section. A dash means the DOE published no figure for that year; nothing here is estimated.
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- Compare all 549 New York City high schools on the same figures, sortable by borough and by score.
- SAT preparation — what actually moves a score, and how far it moves in the time you have.
- Academy for Careers in Television and Film on schools.nyc.gov — the DOE’s own page for this school.
Figures from NYC Open Data — School Quality Reports, Multi-Year Metrics, New York City Department of Education. Rebuilt 2026-09-15. Method and caveats are set out on the index page.
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