FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#452 of 548 citywide · 785/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K502
- SAT total, 2024
- 785
- Math
- 386
- Reading & writing
- 399
- Students counted
- 60
In 2024, students at FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety who sat the SAT averaged 785 out of 1600 — 386 on Math and 399 on Reading and Writing. That is 194 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 981, it is 196 points lower. Citywide it ranks 452 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 120 of 155.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 881 in 2017 to 785 in 2024, down 96 points. The peak was 881 in 2017 and the floor 744 in 2022, a spread of 137 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 59 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2017 and 2018, when the average dropped 60 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 326 of 453 in 2017 to 384 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 58 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 60 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 3% on Math and 16% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn Technical High School, at 1405, 620 points ahead of FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety. 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 | 881 | 448 | 433 | 72 | 9% | 17% |
| 2018 | 821 | 408 | 413 | 42 | 11% | 20% |
| 2019 | 768 | 371 | 397 | 48 | 2% | 10% |
| 2020 | 806 | 399 | 407 | 36 | 2% | 9% |
| 2021 | 768 | 373 | 395 | 28 | 2% | 4% |
| 2022 | 744 | 356 | 388 | 30 | 2% | 3% |
| 2023 | 745 | 361 | 384 | 34 | 0% | 9% |
| 2024 | 785 | 386 | 399 | 60 | 3% | 16% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2024 | 981 | 490 | 491 | 15,293 | — | — |
“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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- FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety 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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