CSI High School for International Studies: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#45 of 548 citywide · 1091/1600 in 2024 · Staten Island · DBN 31R047
- SAT total, 2024
- 1091
- Math
- 548
- Reading & writing
- 543
- Students counted
- 138
In 2024, students at CSI High School for International Studies who sat the SAT averaged 1091 out of 1600 — 548 on Math and 543 on Reading and Writing. That is 112 points above the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Staten Island, where the average is 1023, it is 68 points higher. Citywide it ranks 45 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Staten Island it is 2 of 15.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1129 in 2017 to 1091 in 2024, down 38 points. The peak was 1131 in 2018 and the floor 1073 in 2023, a spread of 58 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 34 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 36 of 453 in 2017, 44 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 138 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 55% on Math and 75% 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 Staten Island that year belonged to Staten Island Technical High School, at 1436, 345 points ahead of CSI High School for International Studies. 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 | 1129 | 561 | 569 | 132 | 63% | 86% |
| 2018 | 1131 | 564 | 566 | 100 | 57% | 84% |
| 2019 | 1097 | 539 | 558 | 124 | 62% | 86% |
| 2020 | 1094 | 548 | 546 | 123 | 56% | 79% |
| 2021 | 1127 | 557 | 570 | 125 | 60% | 80% |
| 2022 | 1104 | 555 | 549 | 83 | 59% | 73% |
| 2023 | 1073 | 527 | 546 | 132 | 45% | 71% |
| 2024 | 1091 | 548 | 543 | 138 | 55% | 75% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Staten Island, 2024 | 1023 | 508 | 515 | 3,526 | — | — |
“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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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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