Marta Valle High School: average SAT score, 2017-2019
#267 of 548 citywide · 868/1600 in 2019 · Manhattan · DBN 01M509
- SAT total, 2019
- 868
- Math
- 408
- Reading & writing
- 460
- Students counted
- 19
In 2019, students at Marta Valle High School who sat the SAT averaged 868 out of 1600 — 408 on Math and 460 on Reading and Writing. That is 135 points below the 1003 averaged across the 493 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Manhattan, where the average is 1047, it is 179 points lower. Citywide it ranks 267 of 548. In Manhattan it is 91 of 140.
Across 3 measured years, the school's average went from 849 in 2017 to 868 in 2019, up 19 points. The peak was 939 in 2018 and the floor 849 in 2017, a spread of 90 points. Citywide the average moved down 13 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 32 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2017 and 2018, when the average rose 90 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 396 of 453 in 2017 to 314 of 493 in 2019, a climb of 82 places.
The 2019 figure is the average of 19 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen 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, 8% on Math and 25% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark. The two sections are far apart here: Reading and Writing clears the bar for a much larger share of students than Math does, which is usually where a prep plan starts.
The highest average in Manhattan that year belonged to KIPP Infinity Charter School, at 1044, 176 points ahead of Marta Valle High School. A gap of that size is real, and it is the kind of distance targeted preparation is normally asked to close.
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 | 849 | 411 | 438 | 29 | 5% | 18% |
| 2018 | 939 | 467 | 472 | 30 | 19% | 47% |
| 2019 | 868 | 408 | 460 | 19 | 8% | 25% |
| City, 2019 | 1003 | 504 | 499 | 61,736 | — | — |
| Manhattan, 2019 | 1047 | 525 | 522 | 13,475 | — | — |
“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.
- Marta Valle 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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