Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#183 of 548 citywide · 904/1600 in 2024 · Staten Island · DBN 31R600
- SAT total, 2024
- 904
- Math
- 447
- Reading & writing
- 457
- Students counted
- 105
In 2024, students at Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School who sat the SAT averaged 904 out of 1600 — 447 on Math and 457 on Reading and Writing. That is 75 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Staten Island, where the average is 1023, it is 119 points lower. Citywide it ranks 183 of 548. In Staten Island it is 9 of 15.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 920 in 2017 to 904 in 2024, down 16 points. The peak was 951 in 2019 and the floor 882 in 2023, a spread of 69 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 21 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 57 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 227 of 453 in 2017 to 162 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 65 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 105 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 13% on Math and 25% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Staten Island that year belonged to Staten Island Technical High School, at 1436, 532 points ahead of Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High 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 | 920 | 466 | 454 | 127 | 16% | 30% |
| 2018 | 945 | 469 | 476 | 118 | 20% | 36% |
| 2019 | 951 | 474 | 477 | 172 | 25% | 45% |
| 2020 | 894 | 445 | 449 | 157 | 13% | 25% |
| 2021 | 906 | 444 | 462 | 124 | 13% | 28% |
| 2022 | 892 | 441 | 451 | 141 | 12% | 22% |
| 2023 | 882 | 435 | 447 | 122 | 13% | 28% |
| 2024 | 904 | 447 | 457 | 105 | 13% | 25% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Staten Island, 2024 | 1023 | 508 | 515 | 3,526 | — | — |
“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.
- Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education 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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