Life Academy High School for Film and Music: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#455 of 548 citywide · 784/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 21K559
- SAT total, 2024
- 784
- Math
- 400
- Reading & writing
- 384
- Students counted
- 43
In 2024, students at Life Academy High School for Film and Music who sat the SAT averaged 784 out of 1600 — 400 on Math and 384 on Reading and Writing. That is 195 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 197 points lower. Citywide it ranks 455 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 123 of 155.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 922 in 2017 to 784 in 2024, down 138 points. 2024 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 922, back in 2017. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 101 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2020 and 2021, when the average dropped 53 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 225 of 453 in 2017 to 387 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 162 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 43 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 6% on Math and 10% 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, 621 points ahead of Life Academy High School for Film and Music. 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 | 922 | 449 | 473 | 54 | 14% | 40% |
| 2018 | 922 | 461 | 461 | 63 | 22% | 33% |
| 2019 | 906 | 447 | 459 | 58 | 15% | 32% |
| 2020 | 865 | 428 | 437 | 52 | 7% | 22% |
| 2021 | 812 | 400 | 412 | 50 | 3% | 9% |
| 2022 | 818 | 406 | 412 | 61 | 11% | 19% |
| 2023 | 787 | 382 | 405 | 44 | 2% | 12% |
| 2024 | 784 | 400 | 384 | 43 | 6% | 10% |
| 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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- Life Academy High School for Film and Music 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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