South Brooklyn Community High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#453 of 548 citywide · 785/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 15K698
- SAT total, 2024
- 785
- Math
- 395
- Reading & writing
- 390
- Students counted
- 20
In 2024, students at South Brooklyn Community High School who sat the SAT averaged 785 out of 1600 — 395 on Math and 390 on Reading and Writing. That is 194 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 981, it is 196 points lower. Citywide it ranks 453 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 121 of 155.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 811 in 2018 to 785 in 2024, down 26 points. The peak was 837 in 2020 and the floor 761 in 2022, a spread of 76 points. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2020 and 2021, when the average dropped 53 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 455 of 499 in 2018 to 385 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 70 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 20 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 2% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn Technical High School, at 1405, 620 points ahead of South Brooklyn Community 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 811 | 390 | 421 | 20 | 0% | 3% |
| 2019 | 808 | 398 | 410 | 35 | 3% | 9% |
| 2020 | 837 | 410 | 427 | 46 | 4% | 8% |
| 2021 | 784 | 376 | 408 | 26 | 0% | 3% |
| 2022 | 761 | 374 | 387 | 35 | 0% | 3% |
| 2023 | 803 | 404 | 399 | 17 | 1% | 2% |
| 2024 | 785 | 395 | 390 | 20 | 0% | 2% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2024 | 981 | 490 | 491 | 15,293 | — | — |
“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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- South Brooklyn Community 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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