John Dewey High School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#116 of 548 citywide · 956/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 21K540
- SAT total, 2024
- 956
- Math
- 485
- Reading & writing
- 471
- Students counted
- 481
In 2024, students at John Dewey High School who sat the SAT averaged 956 out of 1600 — 485 on Math and 471 on Reading and Writing. That is 23 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 981, it is 25 points lower. Citywide it ranks 116 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 26 of 155.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1008 in 2017 to 956 in 2024, down 52 points. The peak was 1008 in 2017 and the floor 925 in 2022, a spread of 83 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 15 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2023 and 2024, when the average rose 30 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 107 of 453 in 2017, 105 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 481 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 28% on Math and 40% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn Technical High School, at 1405, 449 points ahead of John Dewey High 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 | 1008 | 517 | 491 | 473 | 35% | 48% |
| 2018 | 979 | 505 | 474 | 524 | 36% | 40% |
| 2019 | 963 | 493 | 470 | 476 | 33% | 38% |
| 2020 | 935 | 477 | 458 | 460 | 25% | 34% |
| 2021 | 950 | 481 | 469 | 382 | 21% | 29% |
| 2022 | 925 | 466 | 459 | 445 | 25% | 35% |
| 2023 | 926 | 459 | 467 | 425 | 19% | 33% |
| 2024 | 956 | 485 | 471 | 481 | 28% | 40% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2024 | 981 | 490 | 491 | 15,293 | — | — |
“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.
- John Dewey High 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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