Lyons Community School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#404 of 548 citywide · 806/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 14K586
- SAT total, 2024
- 806
- Math
- 397
- Reading & writing
- 409
- Students counted
- 55
In 2024, students at Lyons Community School who sat the SAT averaged 806 out of 1600 — 397 on Math and 409 on Reading and Writing. That is 173 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 175 points lower. Citywide it ranks 404 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 103 of 155.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 857 in 2017 to 806 in 2024, down 51 points. 2024 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 873, back in 2018. 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 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 52 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 381 of 453 in 2017 to 347 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 34 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 fallen sharply since 2017, when 76 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, 4% on Math and 17% 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, 599 points ahead of Lyons Community 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 | 857 | 423 | 434 | 76 | 4% | 17% |
| 2018 | 873 | 428 | 445 | 62 | 5% | 28% |
| 2019 | 821 | 401 | 420 | 55 | 3% | 12% |
| 2020 | 842 | 414 | 428 | 56 | 9% | 20% |
| 2021 | 849 | 416 | 433 | 43 | 9% | 12% |
| 2022 | 835 | 411 | 424 | 54 | 0% | 17% |
| 2023 | 824 | 400 | 424 | 40 | 3% | 16% |
| 2024 | 806 | 397 | 409 | 55 | 4% | 17% |
| 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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- SAT preparation — what actually moves a score, and how far it moves in the time you have.
- Lyons Community 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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