Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM): average SAT score, 2017-2024
#337 of 548 citywide · 836/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 13K412
- SAT total, 2024
- 836
- Math
- 413
- Reading & writing
- 423
- Students counted
- 90
In 2024, students at Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM) who sat the SAT averaged 836 out of 1600 — 413 on Math and 423 on Reading and Writing. That is 143 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 981, it is 145 points lower. Citywide it ranks 337 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 83 of 155.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 858 in 2017 to 836 in 2024, down 22 points. The peak was 882 in 2018 and the floor 808 in 2022, a spread of 74 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 15 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2022 and 2023, when the average rose 34 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 379 of 453 in 2017 to 295 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 84 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 90 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has grown sharply since 2017, when 70 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, 5% on Math and 21% 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 Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn Technical High School, at 1405, 569 points ahead of Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM). 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 | 858 | 414 | 444 | 70 | 2% | 25% |
| 2018 | 882 | 432 | 450 | 74 | 8% | 29% |
| 2019 | 867 | 415 | 452 | 93 | 7% | 30% |
| 2020 | 845 | 417 | 428 | 116 | 7% | 25% |
| 2021 | 835 | 406 | 429 | 81 | 2% | 16% |
| 2022 | 808 | 397 | 411 | 103 | 6% | 16% |
| 2023 | 842 | 401 | 441 | 82 | 4% | 22% |
| 2024 | 836 | 413 | 423 | 90 | 5% | 21% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2024 | 981 | 490 | 491 | 15,293 | — | — |
“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.
- Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM) 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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