Democracy Preparatory Charter School: average SAT score, 2017-2018
#31 of 548 citywide · 1139/1600 in 2018 · Manhattan · DBN 84M350
- SAT total, 2018
- 1139
- Math
- 578
- Reading & writing
- 561
- Students counted
- 58
In 2018, students at Democracy Preparatory Charter School who sat the SAT averaged 1139 out of 1600 — 578 on Math and 561 on Reading and Writing. That is 130 points above the 1009 averaged across the 499 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Manhattan, where the average is 1052, it is 87 points higher. Citywide it ranks 31 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Manhattan it is 18 of 140.
Across 2 measured years, the school's average went from 1138 in 2017 to 1139 in 2018, up 1 points. The series barely moves — 1 points separate its best year from its worst, which is noise at this scale. Citywide the average moved down 7 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
No year in the record moves the average by more than 1 points; the biggest step is between 2017 and 2018. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 35 of 453 in 2017, 34 of 499 in 2018.
The 2018 figure is the average of 58 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 78 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, 65% on Math and 77% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
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 | 1138 | 574 | 565 | 78 | 77% | 87% |
| 2018 | 1139 | 578 | 561 | 58 | 65% | 77% |
| City, 2018 | 1009 | 508 | 501 | 60,797 | — | — |
| Manhattan, 2018 | 1052 | 528 | 524 | 12,727 | — | — |
“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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- Democracy Preparatory Charter 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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