Bronx Arena High School: average SAT score, 2019-2021
#436 of 548 citywide · 792/1600 in 2021 · Bronx · DBN 08X537
- SAT total, 2021
- 792
- Math
- 392
- Reading & writing
- 400
- Students counted
- 25
In 2021, students at Bronx Arena High School who sat the SAT averaged 792 out of 1600 — 392 on Math and 400 on Reading and Writing. That is 219 points below the 1011 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Bronx, where the average is 942, it is 150 points lower. Citywide it ranks 436 of 548. In Bronx it is 107 of 146.
Across 3 measured years, the school's average went from 828 in 2019 to 792 in 2021, down 36 points. 2021 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 828, back in 2019. Citywide the average moved up 8 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 44 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2020 and 2021, when the average dropped 30 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 moved from 391 of 493 in 2019 to 419 of 461 in 2021, a slide of 28 places.
The 2021 figure is the average of 25 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. With fewer than forty test takers, a handful of students can move this average by ten points or more. Read it as an indication, not a measurement. Of those test takers, 3% on Math and 4% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 828 | 408 | 420 | 23 | 3% | 5% |
| 2020 | 822 | 403 | 419 | 30 | 1% | 6% |
| 2021 | 792 | 392 | 400 | 25 | 3% | 4% |
| City, 2021 | 1011 | 506 | 505 | 45,699 | — | — |
| Bronx, 2021 | 942 | 467 | 475 | 6,659 | — | — |
“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.
- Bronx Arena 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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