Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#195 of 548 citywide · 896/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 84M478
- SAT total, 2024
- 896
- Math
- 435
- Reading & writing
- 461
- Students counted
- 107
In 2024, students at Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School who sat the SAT averaged 896 out of 1600 — 435 on Math and 461 on Reading and Writing. That is 83 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 138 points lower. Citywide it ranks 195 of 548. In Manhattan it is 73 of 140.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 942 in 2017 to 896 in 2024, down 46 points. The peak was 942 in 2017 and the floor 848 in 2023, a spread of 94 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 2023 and 2024, when the average rose 48 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 191 of 453 in 2017 to 173 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 18 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 107 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has grown sharply since 2017, when 77 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, 14% on Math and 39% 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, 601 points ahead of Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School. 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 | 942 | 467 | 475 | 77 | 20% | 40% |
| 2018 | 927 | 458 | 468 | 87 | 13% | 39% |
| 2019 | 895 | 441 | 454 | 98 | 14% | 35% |
| 2020 | 863 | 431 | 432 | 110 | 16% | 25% |
| 2022 | 871 | 423 | 448 | 104 | 6% | 26% |
| 2023 | 848 | 413 | 435 | 113 | 2% | 31% |
| 2024 | 896 | 435 | 461 | 107 | 14% | 39% |
| 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.
- Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School 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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