Opportunity Charter School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#346 of 548 citywide · 831/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 84M279
- SAT total, 2024
- 831
- Math
- 410
- Reading & writing
- 421
- Students counted
- 27
In 2024, students at Opportunity Charter School who sat the SAT averaged 831 out of 1600 — 410 on Math and 421 on Reading and Writing. That is 148 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 203 points lower. Citywide it ranks 346 of 548. In Manhattan it is 107 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 796 in 2017 to 831 in 2024, up 35 points. The peak was 867 in 2021 and the floor 768 in 2023, a spread of 99 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 72 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2020 and 2021, when the average rose 72 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 moved from 443 of 453 in 2017 to 302 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 141 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 27 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. With fewer than forty test takers, a handful of students can move this average by ten points or more. Read it as an indication, not a measurement. Of those test takers, 0% 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, 666 points ahead of Opportunity Charter 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 | 796 | 392 | 403 | 36 | 7% | 10% |
| 2018 | 854 | 418 | 436 | 49 | 4% | 21% |
| 2019 | 846 | 419 | 427 | 38 | 2% | 17% |
| 2020 | 795 | 385 | 410 | 31 | 0% | 8% |
| 2021 | 867 | 424 | 443 | 34 | 2% | 16% |
| 2022 | 838 | 394 | 444 | 29 | 0% | 16% |
| 2023 | 768 | 386 | 382 | 25 | 0% | 4% |
| 2024 | 831 | 410 | 421 | 27 | 0% | 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.
Next
- 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.
- Opportunity Charter 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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