Specialized high school · SHSAT
Stuyvesant High School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#1 of 548 citywide · 1497/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M475
- SAT total, 2024
- 1497
- Math
- 763
- Reading & writing
- 734
- Students counted
- 788
In 2024, students at Stuyvesant High School who sat the SAT averaged 1497 out of 1600 — 763 on Math and 734 on Reading and Writing. That is 518 points above the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Manhattan, where the average is 1034, it is 463 points higher. Citywide it ranks 1 of 548 — one of the ten highest averages in the system. In Manhattan it is 1 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1496 in 2017 to 1497 in 2024, up 1 points. The series barely moves — 16 points separate its best year from its worst, which is noise at this scale. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 38 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 16 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 1 of 453 in 2017, 1 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 788 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 99% on Math and 99% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
Stuyvesant High School 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 | 1496 | 774 | 722 | 778 | 96% | 95% |
| 2018 | 1501 | 776 | 725 | 790 | 96% | 96% |
| 2019 | 1503 | 774 | 729 | 813 | 97% | 97% |
| 2020 | 1502 | 774 | 728 | 770 | 95% | 95% |
| 2021 | 1507 | 771 | 736 | 783 | 97% | 97% |
| 2022 | 1491 | 763 | 728 | 868 | 97% | 98% |
| 2023 | 1495 | 764 | 731 | 791 | 98% | 98% |
| 2024 | 1497 | 763 | 734 | 788 | 99% | 99% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Manhattan, 2024 | 1034 | 511 | 523 | 11,026 | — | — |
“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.
- Getting in here starts three years earlier, with the SHSAT — we keep a page on what Stuyvesant asks for.
- Stuyvesant 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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