The Clinton School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#15 of 548 citywide · 1250/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M260
- SAT total, 2024
- 1250
- Math
- 614
- Reading & writing
- 636
- Students counted
- 111
In 2024, students at The Clinton School who sat the SAT averaged 1250 out of 1600 — 614 on Math and 636 on Reading and Writing. That is 271 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 216 points higher. Citywide it ranks 15 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Manhattan it is 7 of 140.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 1189 in 2018 to 1250 in 2024, up 61 points. 2024 is the high point of the whole record; the low was 1187 in 2021. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 91 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average rose 39 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 27 of 499 in 2018 to 15 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 12 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 111 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has grown sharply since 2018, when 82 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, 76% on Math and 85% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 247 points ahead of The Clinton School. A gap of that size is real, and it is the kind of distance targeted preparation is normally asked to close.
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 | 1189 | 582 | 608 | 82 | 70% | 89% |
| 2019 | 1228 | 604 | 624 | 91 | 78% | 90% |
| 2020 | 1193 | 586 | 607 | 101 | 67% | 77% |
| 2021 | 1187 | 573 | 614 | 93 | 60% | 74% |
| 2022 | 1222 | 589 | 633 | 108 | 70% | 85% |
| 2023 | 1239 | 597 | 642 | 111 | 67% | 81% |
| 2024 | 1250 | 614 | 636 | 111 | 76% | 85% |
| 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.
- The Clinton 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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