High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#58 of 548 citywide · 1057/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 27Q650
- SAT total, 2024
- 1057
- Math
- 533
- Reading & writing
- 524
- Students counted
- 238
In 2024, students at High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture who sat the SAT averaged 1057 out of 1600 — 533 on Math and 524 on Reading and Writing. That is 78 points above 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 91 points higher. Citywide it ranks 58 of 548. In Queens it is 16 of 92.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1087 in 2017 to 1057 in 2024, down 30 points. The peak was 1087 in 2017 and the floor 997 in 2022, a spread of 90 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 53 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 54 of 453 in 2017, 55 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 238 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 52% on Math and 70% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark. The two sections are far apart here: Reading and Writing clears the bar for a much larger share of students than Math does, which is usually where a prep plan starts.
The highest average in Queens that year belonged to Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, at 1463, 406 points ahead of High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture. 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 | 1087 | 556 | 531 | 244 | 60% | 74% |
| 2018 | 1073 | 547 | 525 | 235 | 63% | 75% |
| 2019 | 1051 | 536 | 515 | 255 | 60% | 68% |
| 2020 | 1033 | 530 | 503 | 249 | 55% | 62% |
| 2021 | 1050 | 535 | 515 | 257 | 52% | 64% |
| 2022 | 997 | 503 | 494 | 265 | 42% | 58% |
| 2023 | 1011 | 506 | 505 | 261 | 40% | 60% |
| 2024 | 1057 | 533 | 524 | 238 | 52% | 70% |
| 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.
- High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture 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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