High School for Civil Rights: average SAT score, 2017-2023
#543 of 548 citywide · 694/1600 in 2023 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K504
- SAT total, 2023
- 694
- Math
- 322
- Reading & writing
- 372
- Students counted
- 20
In 2023, students at High School for Civil Rights who sat the SAT averaged 694 out of 1600 — 322 on Math and 372 on Reading and Writing. That is 278 points below the 972 averaged across the 445 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 971, it is 277 points lower. Citywide it ranks 543 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 153 of 155.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 819 in 2017 to 694 in 2023, down 125 points. 2023 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 819, back in 2017. Citywide the average moved down 44 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 81 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 63 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 429 of 453 in 2017 to 443 of 444 in 2023, a slide of 14 places.
The 2023 figure is the average of 20 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 50 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 3% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn International High School, at 832, 138 points ahead of High School for Civil Rights. A gap of that size is real, and it is the kind of distance targeted preparation is normally asked to close.
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 | 819 | 411 | 409 | 50 | 3% | 11% |
| 2018 | 803 | 390 | 413 | 32 | 3% | 9% |
| 2019 | 814 | 398 | 416 | 44 | 6% | 18% |
| 2020 | 785 | 385 | 400 | 37 | 2% | 3% |
| 2021 | 788 | 375 | 413 | 33 | 0% | 10% |
| 2022 | 725 | 341 | 384 | 22 | 0% | 3% |
| 2023 | 694 | 322 | 372 | 20 | 0% | 3% |
| City, 2023 | 972 | 482 | 490 | 52,966 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2023 | 971 | 483 | 488 | 14,974 | — | — |
“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.
- High School for Civil Rights 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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