Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity: average SAT score, 2019-2024
#482 of 548 citywide · 770/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 28Q338
- SAT total, 2024
- 770
- Math
- 359
- Reading & writing
- 411
- Students counted
- 15
In 2024, students at Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity who sat the SAT averaged 770 out of 1600 — 359 on Math and 411 on Reading and Writing. That is 209 points below 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 196 points lower. Citywide it ranks 482 of 548. In Queens it is 84 of 92.
Across 5 measured years, the school's average went from 804 in 2019 to 770 in 2024, down 34 points. The peak was 819 in 2021 and the floor 759 in 2022, a spread of 60 points. Citywide the average moved down 24 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 60 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 444 of 493 in 2019 to 408 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 36 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 15 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2019, when 37 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, 0% on Math and 4% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Queens that year belonged to Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, at 1463, 693 points ahead of Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 804 | 392 | 412 | 37 | 2% | 4% |
| 2020 | 787 | 388 | 399 | 56 | 2% | 8% |
| 2021 | 819 | 399 | 420 | 58 | 2% | 8% |
| 2022 | 759 | 365 | 394 | 17 | 0% | 2% |
| 2024 | 770 | 359 | 411 | 15 | 0% | 4% |
| 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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- 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.
- Queens Satellite High School for Opportunity 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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