Manhattan Academy For Arts & Language: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#439 of 548 citywide · 791/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M427
- SAT total, 2024
- 791
- Math
- 401
- Reading & writing
- 390
- Students counted
- 46
In 2024, students at Manhattan Academy For Arts & Language who sat the SAT averaged 791 out of 1600 — 401 on Math and 390 on Reading and Writing. That is 188 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 243 points lower. Citywide it ranks 439 of 548. In Manhattan it is 122 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 895 in 2017 to 791 in 2024, down 104 points. The peak was 895 in 2017 and the floor 776 in 2021, a spread of 119 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 67 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2017 and 2018, when the average dropped 85 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 281 of 453 in 2017 to 373 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 92 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 46 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 5% on Math and 18% 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, 706 points ahead of Manhattan Academy For Arts & Language. 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 | 895 | 464 | 431 | 52 | 15% | 23% |
| 2018 | 810 | 403 | 407 | 58 | 4% | 15% |
| 2019 | 825 | 415 | 410 | 42 | 4% | 14% |
| 2020 | 810 | 401 | 409 | 43 | 2% | 7% |
| 2021 | 776 | 388 | 388 | 28 | 3% | 5% |
| 2022 | 808 | 409 | 399 | 46 | 8% | 12% |
| 2023 | 797 | 389 | 408 | 29 | 0% | 19% |
| 2024 | 791 | 401 | 390 | 46 | 5% | 18% |
| 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.
- Manhattan Academy For Arts & Language 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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