City College Magnet School of the Arts: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#120 of 548 citywide · 952/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 06M293
- SAT total, 2024
- 952
- Math
- 469
- Reading & writing
- 483
- Students counted
- 82
In 2024, students at City College Magnet School of the Arts who sat the SAT averaged 952 out of 1600 — 469 on Math and 483 on Reading and Writing. That is 27 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 82 points lower. Citywide it ranks 120 of 548. In Manhattan it is 50 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1055 in 2017 to 952 in 2024, down 103 points. The peak was 1095 in 2018 and the floor 907 in 2023, a spread of 188 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 66 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2022 and 2023, when the average dropped 58 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 74 of 453 in 2017 to 108 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 34 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 82 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 24% on Math and 52% 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 Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 545 points ahead of City College Magnet School of the Arts. 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 | 1055 | 532 | 522 | 83 | 56% | 76% |
| 2018 | 1095 | 555 | 540 | 73 | 62% | 82% |
| 2019 | 1039 | 528 | 511 | 88 | 54% | 63% |
| 2020 | 986 | 502 | 484 | 87 | 40% | 51% |
| 2021 | 1018 | 509 | 509 | 79 | 38% | 66% |
| 2022 | 965 | 489 | 476 | 81 | 30% | 44% |
| 2023 | 907 | 448 | 459 | 78 | 19% | 37% |
| 2024 | 952 | 469 | 483 | 82 | 24% | 52% |
| 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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- 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.
- City College Magnet School of the 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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