John W. Lavelle Preparatory Charter School: average SAT score, 2017-2020
#203 of 548 citywide · 893/1600 in 2020 · Staten Island · DBN 84R067
- SAT total, 2020
- 893
- Math
- 449
- Reading & writing
- 444
- Students counted
- 45
In 2020, students at John W. Lavelle Preparatory Charter School who sat the SAT averaged 893 out of 1600 — 449 on Math and 444 on Reading and Writing. That is 82 points below the 975 averaged across the 485 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Staten Island, where the average is 1015, it is 122 points lower. Citywide it ranks 203 of 548. In Staten Island it is 11 of 15.
Across 4 measured years, the school's average went from 969 in 2017 to 893 in 2020, down 76 points. 2020 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 1030, back in 2018. Citywide the average moved down 41 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 35 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 77 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 147 of 453 in 2017 to 189 of 485 in 2020, a slide of 42 places.
The 2020 figure is the average of 45 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has grown sharply since 2017, when 29 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, 22% on Math and 27% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
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 | 969 | 481 | 488 | 29 | 28% | 62% |
| 2018 | 1030 | 530 | 500 | 42 | 52% | 60% |
| 2019 | 953 | 484 | 469 | 46 | 28% | 41% |
| 2020 | 893 | 449 | 444 | 45 | 22% | 27% |
| City, 2020 | 975 | 491 | 484 | 60,314 | — | — |
| Staten Island, 2020 | 1015 | 509 | 506 | 3,829 | — | — |
“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 W. Lavelle Preparatory 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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