High School for Health Professions and Human Services: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#74 of 548 citywide · 1006/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M420
- SAT total, 2024
- 1006
- Math
- 505
- Reading & writing
- 501
- Students counted
- 314
In 2024, students at High School for Health Professions and Human Services who sat the SAT averaged 1006 out of 1600 — 505 on Math and 501 on Reading and Writing. That is 27 points above 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 28 points lower. Citywide it ranks 74 of 548. In Manhattan it is 36 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1046 in 2017 to 1006 in 2024, down 40 points. The peak was 1058 in 2019 and the floor 966 in 2022, a spread of 92 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 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 51 points in one year. That is the pandemic cohort, and it moved almost everywhere in the city, so it says more about the year than about the school. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 78 of 453 in 2017, 69 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 314 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 42% on Math and 57% 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 Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 491 points ahead of High School for Health Professions and Human Services. 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 | 1046 | 525 | 521 | 376 | 47% | 68% |
| 2018 | 1041 | 530 | 511 | 404 | 52% | 65% |
| 2019 | 1058 | 542 | 516 | 422 | 59% | 67% |
| 2020 | 1007 | 511 | 496 | 421 | 45% | 55% |
| 2021 | 1000 | 507 | 493 | 276 | 27% | 36% |
| 2022 | 966 | 483 | 483 | 363 | 31% | 51% |
| 2023 | 978 | 492 | 486 | 352 | 33% | 51% |
| 2024 | 1006 | 505 | 501 | 314 | 42% | 57% |
| 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.
- High School for Health Professions and Human Services 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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