Bard High School Early College: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#24 of 548 citywide · 1166/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 01M696
- SAT total, 2024
- 1166
- Math
- 566
- Reading & writing
- 600
- Students counted
- 117
In 2024, students at Bard High School Early College who sat the SAT averaged 1166 out of 1600 — 566 on Math and 600 on Reading and Writing. That is 187 points above the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Manhattan, where the average is 1034, it is 132 points higher. Citywide it ranks 24 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Manhattan it is 13 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1332 in 2017 to 1166 in 2024, down 166 points. 2024 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 1339, back in 2018. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 129 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2023 and 2024, when the average dropped 120 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 12 of 453 in 2017 to 24 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 12 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 117 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 62% on Math and 86% 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 Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 331 points ahead of Bard High School Early College. 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 | 1332 | 658 | 674 | 123 | 87% | 91% |
| 2018 | 1339 | 669 | 670 | 143 | 94% | 95% |
| 2019 | 1323 | 660 | 663 | 119 | 91% | 97% |
| 2020 | 1286 | 643 | 643 | 152 | 88% | 92% |
| 2021 | 1295 | 641 | 654 | 151 | 82% | 90% |
| 2022 | 1192 | 592 | 600 | 138 | 76% | 86% |
| 2023 | 1286 | 632 | 654 | 119 | 81% | 87% |
| 2024 | 1166 | 566 | 600 | 117 | 62% | 86% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Manhattan, 2024 | 1034 | 511 | 523 | 11,026 | — | — |
“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.
- Bard High School Early College 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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