High School for Contemporary Arts: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#511 of 548 citywide · 754/1600 in 2024 · Bronx · DBN 11X544
- SAT total, 2024
- 754
- Math
- 364
- Reading & writing
- 390
- Students counted
- 75
In 2024, students at High School for Contemporary Arts who sat the SAT averaged 754 out of 1600 — 364 on Math and 390 on Reading and Writing. That is 225 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 154 points lower. Citywide it ranks 511 of 548. In Bronx it is 133 of 146.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 846 in 2017 to 754 in 2024, down 92 points. The peak was 846 in 2017 and the floor 744 in 2022, a spread of 102 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 55 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 97 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 405 of 453 in 2017 to 430 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 25 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 75 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 0% on Math and 6% 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, 693 points ahead of High School for Contemporary Arts. 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 | 846 | 416 | 431 | 95 | 6% | 22% |
| 2018 | 833 | 414 | 419 | 108 | 8% | 16% |
| 2019 | 817 | 392 | 425 | 86 | 3% | 21% |
| 2020 | 783 | 379 | 404 | 63 | 2% | 9% |
| 2021 | 841 | 400 | 441 | 20 | 2% | 7% |
| 2022 | 744 | 370 | 374 | 35 | 0% | 3% |
| 2023 | 747 | 364 | 383 | 44 | 0% | 7% |
| 2024 | 754 | 364 | 390 | 75 | 0% | 6% |
| 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.
- SAT preparation — what actually moves a score, and how far it moves in the time you have.
- High School for Contemporary Arts 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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