Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts: average SAT score, 2017-2023
#389 of 548 citywide · 813/1600 in 2023 · Bronx · DBN 11X253
- SAT total, 2023
- 813
- Math
- 389
- Reading & writing
- 424
- Students counted
- 24
In 2023, students at Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts who sat the SAT averaged 813 out of 1600 — 389 on Math and 424 on Reading and Writing. That is 159 points below the 972 averaged across the 445 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Bronx, where the average is 901, it is 88 points lower. Citywide it ranks 389 of 548. In Bronx it is 86 of 146.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 858 in 2017 to 813 in 2023, down 45 points. The peak was 858 in 2017 and the floor 785 in 2022, a spread of 73 points. Citywide the average moved down 44 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 45 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 380 of 453 in 2017 to 325 of 444 in 2023, a climb of 55 places.
The 2023 figure is the average of 24 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 60 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, 3% on Math and 13% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Bronx that year belonged to High School of World Cultures, at 830, 17 points ahead of Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts. The two sit close enough that a single strong cohort separates them.
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 | 858 | 419 | 439 | 60 | 2% | 28% |
| 2018 | 847 | 417 | 430 | 68 | 2% | 18% |
| 2019 | 839 | 397 | 442 | 48 | 1% | 11% |
| 2020 | 817 | 408 | 409 | 62 | 6% | 12% |
| 2021 | 830 | 390 | 440 | 44 | 4% | 19% |
| 2022 | 785 | 380 | 405 | 32 | 0% | 12% |
| 2023 | 813 | 389 | 424 | 24 | 3% | 13% |
| City, 2023 | 972 | 482 | 490 | 52,966 | — | — |
| Bronx, 2023 | 901 | 444 | 457 | 8,030 | — | — |
“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.
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- Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts 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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