Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#499 of 548 citywide · 761/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 27Q260
- SAT total, 2024
- 761
- Math
- 372
- Reading & writing
- 389
- Students counted
- 45
In 2024, students at Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School who sat the SAT averaged 761 out of 1600 — 372 on Math and 389 on Reading and Writing. That is 218 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Queens, where the average is 966, it is 205 points lower. Citywide it ranks 499 of 548. In Queens it is 88 of 92.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 828 in 2017 to 761 in 2024, down 67 points. The peak was 828 in 2017 and the floor 728 in 2023, a spread of 100 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 30 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2022 and 2023, when the average dropped 45 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 423 of 453 in 2017, 421 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 45 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 64 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, 0% on Math and 14% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Queens that year belonged to Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, at 1463, 702 points ahead of Frederick Douglass Academy VI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 828 | 401 | 428 | 64 | 2% | 12% |
| 2018 | 821 | 402 | 419 | 52 | 0% | 8% |
| 2019 | 784 | 388 | 396 | 58 | 1% | 6% |
| 2020 | 784 | 387 | 397 | 35 | 1% | 4% |
| 2021 | 755 | 370 | 385 | 38 | 1% | 1% |
| 2022 | 773 | 383 | 390 | 35 | 2% | 4% |
| 2023 | 728 | 369 | 359 | 30 | 0% | 2% |
| 2024 | 761 | 372 | 389 | 45 | 0% | 14% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Queens, 2024 | 966 | 483 | 483 | 15,230 | — | — |
“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.
- Frederick Douglass Academy VI 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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