Math, Engineering, and Science Academy Charter High School: average SAT score, 2017-2020
#163 of 548 citywide · 918/1600 in 2020 · Brooklyn · DBN 84K733
- SAT total, 2020
- 918
- Math
- 455
- Reading & writing
- 463
- Students counted
- 116
In 2020, students at Math, Engineering, and Science Academy Charter High School who sat the SAT averaged 918 out of 1600 — 455 on Math and 463 on Reading and Writing. That is 57 points below the 975 averaged across the 485 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 972, it is 54 points lower. Citywide it ranks 163 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 36 of 155.
Across 4 measured years, the school's average went from 962 in 2017 to 918 in 2020, down 44 points. 2020 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 962, back in 2017. Citywide the average moved down 41 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 40 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 has hardly changed: 155 of 453 in 2017, 147 of 485 in 2020.
The 2020 figure is the average of 116 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 18% on Math and 38% 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 Brooklyn that year belonged to Coney Island Preparatory Public Charter School, at 988, 70 points ahead of Math, Engineering, and Science Academy Charter High School. The two sit close enough that a single strong cohort separates them.
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 | 962 | 485 | 477 | 101 | 23% | 45% |
| 2018 | 932 | 468 | 465 | 105 | 17% | 38% |
| 2019 | 958 | 485 | 473 | 109 | 31% | 49% |
| 2020 | 918 | 455 | 463 | 116 | 18% | 38% |
| City, 2020 | 975 | 491 | 484 | 60,314 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2020 | 972 | 492 | 480 | 16,715 | — | — |
“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.
- Math, Engineering, and Science Academy Charter 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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