Emma Lazarus High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#241 of 548 citywide · 877/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M394
- SAT total, 2024
- 877
- Math
- 465
- Reading & writing
- 412
- Students counted
- 67
In 2024, students at Emma Lazarus High School who sat the SAT averaged 877 out of 1600 — 465 on Math and 412 on Reading and Writing. That is 102 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 157 points lower. Citywide it ranks 241 of 548. In Manhattan it is 84 of 140.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 970 in 2018 to 877 in 2024, down 93 points. 2024 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 1004, back in 2019. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 63 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 62 points in one year. That is the pandemic cohort, and it moved almost everywhere in the city, so it says more about the year than about the school. Its place in the citywide order moved from 147 of 499 in 2018 to 212 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 65 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 67 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has grown sharply since 2018, when 28 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, 12% on Math and 7% 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, 620 points ahead of Emma Lazarus 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 | 970 | 549 | 421 | 28 | 30% | 10% |
| 2019 | 1004 | 553 | 451 | 51 | 36% | 21% |
| 2020 | 942 | 508 | 434 | 56 | 25% | 17% |
| 2021 | 936 | 504 | 432 | 71 | 26% | 15% |
| 2022 | 958 | 521 | 437 | 79 | 30% | 14% |
| 2023 | 905 | 486 | 419 | 57 | 21% | 10% |
| 2024 | 877 | 465 | 412 | 67 | 12% | 7% |
| 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.
- Emma Lazarus 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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