Frederick Douglass Academy III Secondary School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#424 of 548 citywide · 798/1600 in 2024 · Bronx · DBN 09X517
- SAT total, 2024
- 798
- Math
- 395
- Reading & writing
- 403
- Students counted
- 44
In 2024, students at Frederick Douglass Academy III Secondary School who sat the SAT averaged 798 out of 1600 — 395 on Math and 403 on Reading and Writing. That is 181 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Bronx, where the average is 908, it is 110 points lower. Citywide it ranks 424 of 548. In Bronx it is 99 of 146.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 870 in 2017 to 798 in 2024, down 72 points. The peak was 870 in 2017 and the floor 778 in 2022, a spread of 92 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 35 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 50 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 348 of 453 in 2017 to 363 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 15 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 44 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 61 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, 5% on Math and 13% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Bronx that year belonged to The Bronx High School of Science, at 1447, 649 points ahead of Frederick Douglass Academy III Secondary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 870 | 430 | 440 | 61 | 5% | 19% |
| 2018 | 864 | 431 | 434 | 66 | 9% | 20% |
| 2019 | 814 | 395 | 419 | 76 | 3% | 15% |
| 2020 | 796 | 385 | 411 | 62 | 4% | 8% |
| 2021 | 795 | 392 | 403 | 41 | 2% | 4% |
| 2022 | 778 | 379 | 399 | 50 | 0% | 10% |
| 2023 | 797 | 390 | 407 | 41 | 3% | 13% |
| 2024 | 798 | 395 | 403 | 44 | 5% | 13% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Bronx, 2024 | 908 | 449 | 459 | 8,544 | — | — |
“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.
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- Frederick Douglass Academy III 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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