Pharos Academy Charter School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#68 of 548 citywide · 1022/1600 in 2024 · Bronx · DBN 84X185
- SAT total, 2024
- 1022
- Math
- 516
- Reading & writing
- 506
- Students counted
- 56
In 2024, students at Pharos Academy Charter School who sat the SAT averaged 1022 out of 1600 — 516 on Math and 506 on Reading and Writing. That is 43 points above the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Bronx, where the average is 908, it is 114 points higher. Citywide it ranks 68 of 548. In Bronx it is 4 of 146.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1044 in 2017 to 1022 in 2024, down 22 points. The peak was 1044 in 2017 and the floor 936 in 2022, a spread of 108 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 15 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2023 and 2024, when the average rose 78 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 81 of 453 in 2017 to 63 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 18 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 56 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 42% on Math and 62% 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 Bronx that year belonged to The Bronx High School of Science, at 1447, 425 points ahead of Pharos Academy 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 | 1044 | 521 | 523 | 53 | 46% | 70% |
| 2018 | 1038 | 521 | 517 | 54 | 43% | 71% |
| 2019 | 995 | 494 | 501 | 57 | 33% | 62% |
| 2020 | 958 | 488 | 470 | 46 | 29% | 37% |
| 2021 | 945 | 470 | 475 | 53 | 19% | 45% |
| 2022 | 936 | 465 | 471 | 57 | 19% | 47% |
| 2023 | 944 | 470 | 474 | 49 | 17% | 46% |
| 2024 | 1022 | 516 | 506 | 56 | 42% | 62% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Bronx, 2024 | 908 | 449 | 459 | 8,544 | — | — |
“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.
- Pharos Academy 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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