High School for Media and Communications: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#500 of 548 citywide · 761/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 06M463
- SAT total, 2024
- 761
- Math
- 376
- Reading & writing
- 385
- Students counted
- 66
In 2024, students at High School for Media and Communications who sat the SAT averaged 761 out of 1600 — 376 on Math and 385 on Reading and Writing. That is 218 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 273 points lower. Citywide it ranks 500 of 548. In Manhattan it is 132 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 799 in 2017 to 761 in 2024, down 38 points. The peak was 804 in 2021 and the floor 756 in 2019, a spread of 48 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 2020 and 2021, when the average rose 47 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 moved from 441 of 453 in 2017 to 422 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 19 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 66 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 1% on Math and 10% 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, 736 points ahead of High School for Media and Communications. 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 | 799 | 397 | 402 | 78 | 2% | 12% |
| 2018 | 796 | 400 | 397 | 69 | 6% | 8% |
| 2019 | 756 | 372 | 384 | 73 | 3% | 9% |
| 2020 | 757 | 369 | 388 | 69 | 2% | 1% |
| 2021 | 804 | 401 | 403 | 35 | 2% | 7% |
| 2022 | 790 | 381 | 409 | 74 | 2% | 11% |
| 2023 | 781 | 392 | 389 | 50 | 1% | 7% |
| 2024 | 761 | 376 | 385 | 66 | 1% | 10% |
| 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 Media and Communications 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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