Specialized high school · SHSAT
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#3 of 548 citywide · 1463/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 28Q687
- SAT total, 2024
- 1463
- Math
- 743
- Reading & writing
- 720
- Students counted
- 129
In 2024, students at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College who sat the SAT averaged 1463 out of 1600 — 743 on Math and 720 on Reading and Writing. That is 484 points above the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Queens, where the average is 966, it is 497 points higher. Citywide it ranks 3 of 548 — one of the ten highest averages in the system. In Queens it is 1 of 92.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1416 in 2017 to 1463 in 2024, up 47 points. 2024 is the high point of the whole record; the low was 1416 in 2017. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 84 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2023 and 2024, when the average rose 44 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 6 of 453 in 2017, 3 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 129 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 100% on Math and 100% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College is one of New York's nine specialized high schools: admission is decided by the SHSAT alone, on a single October sitting. An SAT average at this level is in large part a selection effect — these students were already at the top of the city's eighth-grade distribution before they arrived.
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 | 1416 | 726 | 691 | 110 | 99% | 99% |
| 2018 | 1452 | 759 | 693 | 110 | 100% | 100% |
| 2019 | 1453 | 752 | 701 | 112 | 99% | 99% |
| 2020 | 1419 | 740 | 679 | 128 | 98% | 99% |
| 2021 | 1421 | 733 | 688 | 120 | 97% | 97% |
| 2022 | 1421 | 728 | 693 | 120 | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 | 1419 | 725 | 694 | 142 | 99% | 99% |
| 2024 | 1463 | 743 | 720 | 129 | 100% | 100% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Queens, 2024 | 966 | 483 | 483 | 15,230 | — | — |
“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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- Queens High School for the Sciences at York College 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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