Columbia Secondary School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#10 of 548 citywide · 1301/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 05M362
- SAT total, 2024
- 1301
- Math
- 645
- Reading & writing
- 656
- Students counted
- 90
In 2024, students at Columbia Secondary School who sat the SAT averaged 1301 out of 1600 — 645 on Math and 656 on Reading and Writing. That is 322 points above 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 267 points higher. Citywide it ranks 10 of 548 — one of the ten highest averages in the system. In Manhattan it is 4 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1251 in 2017 to 1301 in 2024, up 50 points. 2024 is the high point of the whole record; the low was 1184 in 2022. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 87 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 99 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 19 of 453 in 2017, 10 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 90 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 81% on Math and 85% 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, 196 points ahead of Columbia Secondary School. A gap of that size is real, and it is the kind of distance targeted preparation is normally asked to close.
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 | 1251 | 626 | 625 | 89 | 83% | 96% |
| 2018 | 1290 | 650 | 640 | 98 | 89% | 95% |
| 2019 | 1250 | 633 | 617 | 95 | 84% | 92% |
| 2020 | 1257 | 647 | 610 | 94 | 93% | 93% |
| 2021 | 1283 | 650 | 633 | 71 | 65% | 67% |
| 2022 | 1184 | 600 | 584 | 90 | 73% | 85% |
| 2023 | 1236 | 623 | 613 | 91 | 83% | 84% |
| 2024 | 1301 | 645 | 656 | 90 | 81% | 85% |
| 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.
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.
- Columbia Secondary 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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