Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service: average SAT score, 2019-2024
#520 of 548 citywide · 744/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 13K616
- SAT total, 2024
- 744
- Math
- 346
- Reading & writing
- 398
- Students counted
- 16
In 2024, students at Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service who sat the SAT averaged 744 out of 1600 — 346 on Math and 398 on Reading and Writing. That is 235 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 237 points lower. Citywide it ranks 520 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 143 of 155.
Across 4 measured years, the school's average went from 803 in 2019 to 744 in 2024, down 59 points. The peak was 803 in 2019 and the floor 738 in 2020, a spread of 65 points. Citywide the average moved down 24 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 35 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 65 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: 447 of 493 in 2019, 438 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 16 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2019, when 22 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, 0% on Math and 3% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn Technical High School, at 1405, 661 points ahead of Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 803 | 398 | 405 | 22 | 0% | 2% |
| 2020 | 738 | 359 | 379 | 24 | 0% | 0% |
| 2021 | 802 | 400 | 402 | 15 | 0% | 3% |
| 2024 | 744 | 346 | 398 | 16 | 0% | 3% |
| 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 High School for Leadership and Community Service 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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