Benjamin N. Cardozo High School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#36 of 548 citywide · 1119/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 26Q415
- SAT total, 2024
- 1119
- Math
- 569
- Reading & writing
- 550
- Students counted
- 511
In 2024, students at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School who sat the SAT averaged 1119 out of 1600 — 569 on Math and 550 on Reading and Writing. That is 140 points above 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 153 points higher. Citywide it ranks 36 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Queens it is 8 of 92.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1125 in 2017 to 1119 in 2024, down 6 points. The peak was 1125 in 2017 and the floor 1071 in 2020, a spread of 54 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 31 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 50 points in one year. That is the pandemic cohort, and it moved almost everywhere in the city, so it says more about the year than about the school. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 38 of 453 in 2017, 35 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 511 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 800 students were counted, so year-to-year moves here reflect a changing group of test takers as much as anything else. Of those test takers, 42% on Math and 52% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Queens that year belonged to Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, at 1463, 344 points ahead of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School. 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 | 1125 | 574 | 550 | 800 | 57% | 68% |
| 2018 | 1125 | 578 | 547 | 826 | 57% | 68% |
| 2019 | 1121 | 573 | 548 | 742 | 56% | 65% |
| 2020 | 1071 | 547 | 524 | 739 | 52% | 60% |
| 2021 | 1100 | 561 | 539 | 647 | 46% | 56% |
| 2022 | 1088 | 552 | 536 | 603 | 46% | 54% |
| 2023 | 1109 | 562 | 547 | 556 | 42% | 52% |
| 2024 | 1119 | 569 | 550 | 511 | 42% | 52% |
| 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.
- Benjamin N. Cardozo High School 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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