Bushwick Community High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#506 of 548 citywide · 759/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 32K564
- SAT total, 2024
- 759
- Math
- 375
- Reading & writing
- 384
- Students counted
- 23
In 2024, students at Bushwick Community High School who sat the SAT averaged 759 out of 1600 — 375 on Math and 384 on Reading and Writing. That is 220 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 222 points lower. Citywide it ranks 506 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 141 of 155.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 781 in 2018 to 759 in 2024, down 22 points. 2024 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 818, back in 2023. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2023 and 2024, when the average dropped 59 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 486 of 499 in 2018 to 426 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 60 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 23 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, 2% 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, 646 points ahead of Bushwick Community 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 781 | 386 | 395 | 24 | 0% | 3% |
| 2019 | 782 | 386 | 396 | 51 | 1% | 3% |
| 2020 | 775 | 385 | 390 | 49 | 0% | 2% |
| 2021 | 782 | 383 | 399 | 47 | 2% | 3% |
| 2022 | 773 | 389 | 384 | 22 | 0% | 1% |
| 2023 | 818 | 400 | 418 | 17 | 0% | 6% |
| 2024 | 759 | 375 | 384 | 23 | 2% | 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.
Next
- 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.
- Bushwick Community 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.
Take the next step
Tell us the score you have and the one you need.
Write the target school or the number you are aiming at in the box below. We start with a diagnostic, so the plan is built on the distance you actually have to cover, not on a package.