Urban Academy Laboratory High School: average SAT score, 2018-2024
#48 of 548 citywide · 1086/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M565
- SAT total, 2024
- 1086
- Math
- 527
- Reading & writing
- 559
- Students counted
- 21
In 2024, students at Urban Academy Laboratory High School who sat the SAT averaged 1086 out of 1600 — 527 on Math and 559 on Reading and Writing. That is 107 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 52 points higher. Citywide it ranks 48 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Manhattan it is 26 of 140.
Across 7 measured years, the school's average went from 1079 in 2018 to 1086 in 2024, up 7 points. 2024 is the high point of the whole record; the low was 1001 in 2022. Citywide the average moved down 30 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 37 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 69 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 58 of 499 in 2018 to 46 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 12 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 21 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, 20% on Math and 37% 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.
The highest average in Manhattan that year belonged to Stuyvesant High School, at 1497, 411 points ahead of Urban Academy Laboratory 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 | 1079 | 516 | 564 | 23 | 26% | 51% |
| 2019 | 1010 | 485 | 525 | 38 | 26% | 48% |
| 2020 | 1033 | 497 | 536 | 34 | 36% | 59% |
| 2021 | 1025 | 494 | 531 | 27 | 39% | 55% |
| 2022 | 1001 | 466 | 535 | 31 | 23% | 46% |
| 2023 | 1042 | 476 | 566 | 18 | 18% | 39% |
| 2024 | 1086 | 527 | 559 | 21 | 20% | 37% |
| 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.
- Urban Academy Laboratory 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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