Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, The: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#232 of 548 citywide · 882/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 02M300
- SAT total, 2024
- 882
- Math
- 430
- Reading & writing
- 452
- Students counted
- 42
In 2024, students at Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, The who sat the SAT averaged 882 out of 1600 — 430 on Math and 452 on Reading and Writing. That is 97 points below 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 152 points lower. Citywide it ranks 232 of 548. In Manhattan it is 79 of 140.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 933 in 2017 to 882 in 2024, down 51 points. The peak was 933 in 2017 and the floor 846 in 2023, a spread of 87 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so the school tracked the city rather than parting from it.
The sharpest single move came between 2019 and 2020, when the average dropped 41 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 has hardly changed: 203 of 453 in 2017, 203 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 42 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 66 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, 4% on Math and 32% 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, 615 points ahead of Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, The. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 933 | 471 | 462 | 66 | 17% | 28% |
| 2018 | 914 | 467 | 447 | 67 | 20% | 21% |
| 2019 | 933 | 478 | 455 | 52 | 22% | 28% |
| 2020 | 892 | 450 | 442 | 48 | 18% | 23% |
| 2021 | 871 | 429 | 442 | 50 | 8% | 19% |
| 2022 | 867 | 427 | 440 | 45 | 8% | 23% |
| 2023 | 846 | 413 | 433 | 61 | 4% | 23% |
| 2024 | 882 | 430 | 452 | 42 | 4% | 32% |
| 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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- Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, The 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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