High School for Violin and Dance: average SAT score, 2017-2023
#472 of 548 citywide · 774/1600 in 2023 · Bronx · DBN 09X543
- SAT total, 2023
- 774
- Math
- 376
- Reading & writing
- 398
- Students counted
- 19
In 2023, students at High School for Violin and Dance who sat the SAT averaged 774 out of 1600 — 376 on Math and 398 on Reading and Writing. That is 198 points below the 972 averaged across the 445 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Bronx, where the average is 901, it is 127 points lower. Citywide it ranks 472 of 548. In Bronx it is 121 of 146.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 808 in 2017 to 774 in 2023, down 34 points. The peak was 808 in 2017 and the floor 716 in 2020, a spread of 92 points. Citywide the average moved down 44 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 56 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 435 of 453 in 2017 to 404 of 444 in 2023, a climb of 31 places.
The 2023 figure is the average of 19 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 59 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 9% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Bronx that year belonged to High School of World Cultures, at 830, 56 points ahead of High School for Violin and Dance. The two sit close enough that a single strong cohort separates them.
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 | 808 | 398 | 410 | 59 | 2% | 9% |
| 2018 | 803 | 402 | 401 | 33 | 0% | 10% |
| 2019 | 772 | 388 | 384 | 34 | 2% | 3% |
| 2020 | 716 | 352 | 364 | 39 | 0% | 5% |
| 2021 | 760 | 374 | 386 | 32 | 0% | 4% |
| 2022 | 786 | 382 | 404 | 27 | 0% | 12% |
| 2023 | 774 | 376 | 398 | 19 | 0% | 9% |
| City, 2023 | 972 | 482 | 490 | 52,966 | — | — |
| Bronx, 2023 | 901 | 444 | 457 | 8,030 | — | — |
“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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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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