The Maxine Greene HS for Imaginative Inquiry: average SAT score, 2017-2022
#351 of 548 citywide · 829/1600 in 2022 · Manhattan · DBN 03M299
- SAT total, 2022
- 829
- Math
- 398
- Reading & writing
- 431
- Students counted
- 34
In 2022, students at The Maxine Greene HS for Imaginative Inquiry who sat the SAT averaged 829 out of 1600 — 398 on Math and 431 on Reading and Writing. That is 140 points below the 969 averaged across the 469 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Manhattan, where the average is 1018, it is 189 points lower. Citywide it ranks 351 of 548. In Manhattan it is 108 of 140.
Across 6 measured years, the school's average went from 861 in 2017 to 829 in 2022, down 32 points. 2022 is the lowest figure on record here. The peak was 870, back in 2018. Citywide the average moved down 47 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 15 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 31 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 373 of 453 in 2017 to 286 of 469 in 2022, a climb of 87 places.
The 2022 figure is the average of 34 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 71 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, 3% on Math and 23% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark. The two sections are far apart here: Reading and Writing clears the bar for a much larger share of students than Math does, which is usually where a prep plan starts.
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 | 861 | 420 | 441 | 71 | 3% | 24% |
| 2018 | 870 | 425 | 445 | 91 | 5% | 25% |
| 2019 | 855 | 425 | 430 | 79 | 11% | 19% |
| 2020 | 860 | 424 | 436 | 67 | 8% | 16% |
| 2021 | 860 | 412 | 448 | 20 | 3% | 9% |
| 2022 | 829 | 398 | 431 | 34 | 3% | 23% |
| City, 2022 | 969 | 483 | 486 | 54,348 | — | — |
| Manhattan, 2022 | 1018 | 506 | 512 | 11,837 | — | — |
“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 Maxine Greene HS for Imaginative Inquiry 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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