Harlem Renaissance High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#517 of 548 citywide · 749/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 05M285
- SAT total, 2024
- 749
- Math
- 373
- Reading & writing
- 376
- Students counted
- 24
In 2024, students at Harlem Renaissance High School who sat the SAT averaged 749 out of 1600 — 373 on Math and 376 on Reading and Writing. That is 230 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 285 points lower. Citywide it ranks 517 of 548. In Manhattan it is 137 of 140.
Across 6 measured years, the school's average went from 832 in 2018 to 749 in 2024, down 83 points. 2024 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 832, back in 2018. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 53 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 72 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 429 of 499 in 2018, 435 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 24 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. With fewer than forty test takers, a handful of students can move this average by ten points or more. Read it as an indication, not a measurement. Of those test takers, 0% on Math and 0% 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, 748 points ahead of Harlem Renaissance 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 | 832 | 414 | 418 | 26 | 2% | 5% |
| 2019 | 809 | 396 | 413 | 36 | 3% | 5% |
| 2020 | 821 | 404 | 417 | 43 | 0% | 7% |
| 2021 | 831 | 416 | 415 | 39 | 3% | 6% |
| 2022 | 759 | 379 | 380 | 30 | 1% | 4% |
| 2024 | 749 | 373 | 376 | 24 | 0% | 0% |
| 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.
- Harlem Renaissance 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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