Lower East Side Preparatory High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#184 of 548 citywide · 903/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 01M515
- SAT total, 2024
- 903
- Math
- 494
- Reading & writing
- 409
- Students counted
- 55
In 2024, students at Lower East Side Preparatory High School who sat the SAT averaged 903 out of 1600 — 494 on Math and 409 on Reading and Writing. That is 76 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 131 points lower. Citywide it ranks 184 of 548. In Manhattan it is 68 of 140.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 934 in 2018 to 903 in 2024, down 31 points. The peak was 935 in 2019 and the floor 879 in 2023, a spread of 56 points. Citywide the average moved down 30 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 24 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 196 of 499 in 2018 to 163 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 33 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 55 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has grown sharply since 2018, when 37 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 6% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 594 points ahead of Lower East Side Preparatory 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 934 | 485 | 449 | 37 | 24% | 5% |
| 2019 | 935 | 491 | 444 | 90 | 19% | 11% |
| 2020 | 930 | 501 | 429 | 133 | 24% | 16% |
| 2021 | 923 | 499 | 424 | 166 | 25% | 13% |
| 2022 | 901 | 488 | 413 | 103 | 18% | 9% |
| 2023 | 879 | 474 | 405 | 64 | 16% | 4% |
| 2024 | 903 | 494 | 409 | 55 | 14% | 6% |
| 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.
- Lower East Side Preparatory 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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