Cascades High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#495 of 548 citywide · 763/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 01M650
- SAT total, 2024
- 763
- Math
- 363
- Reading & writing
- 400
- Students counted
- 16
In 2024, students at Cascades High School who sat the SAT averaged 763 out of 1600 — 363 on Math and 400 on Reading and Writing. That is 216 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Manhattan, where the average is 1034, it is 271 points lower. Citywide it ranks 495 of 548. In Manhattan it is 129 of 140.
Across 6 measured years, the school's average went from 827 in 2018 to 763 in 2024, down 64 points. The peak was 851 in 2019 and the floor 761 in 2022, a spread of 90 points. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 34 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 89 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 434 of 499 in 2018 to 418 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 16 places.
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 2018, when 32 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, 1% on Math and 3% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 734 points ahead of Cascades 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 | 827 | 404 | 423 | 32 | 1% | 4% |
| 2019 | 851 | 420 | 431 | 53 | 2% | 10% |
| 2020 | 832 | 405 | 427 | 50 | 3% | 8% |
| 2021 | 850 | 426 | 424 | 38 | 2% | 5% |
| 2022 | 761 | 379 | 382 | 26 | 1% | 1% |
| 2024 | 763 | 363 | 400 | 16 | 1% | 3% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Manhattan, 2024 | 1034 | 511 | 523 | 11,026 | — | — |
“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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- Cascades 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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