W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#414 of 548 citywide · 802/1600 in 2024 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K660
- SAT total, 2024
- 802
- Math
- 399
- Reading & writing
- 403
- Students counted
- 63
In 2024, students at W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School who sat the SAT averaged 802 out of 1600 — 399 on Math and 403 on Reading and Writing. That is 177 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Brooklyn, where the average is 981, it is 179 points lower. Citywide it ranks 414 of 548. In Brooklyn it is 106 of 155.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 829 in 2017 to 802 in 2024, down 27 points. The peak was 850 in 2018 and the floor 756 in 2022, a spread of 94 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 2021 and 2022, when the average dropped 47 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 421 of 453 in 2017 to 354 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 67 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 63 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 1% on Math and 11% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Brooklyn that year belonged to Brooklyn Technical High School, at 1405, 603 points ahead of W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 829 | 407 | 421 | 78 | 3% | 12% |
| 2018 | 850 | 416 | 434 | 68 | 4% | 15% |
| 2019 | 809 | 390 | 419 | 73 | 1% | 13% |
| 2020 | 814 | 402 | 412 | 53 | 4% | 9% |
| 2021 | 803 | 395 | 408 | 53 | 1% | 5% |
| 2022 | 756 | 367 | 389 | 61 | 1% | 3% |
| 2023 | 777 | 381 | 396 | 50 | 0% | 5% |
| 2024 | 802 | 399 | 403 | 63 | 1% | 11% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Brooklyn, 2024 | 981 | 490 | 491 | 15,293 | — | — |
“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.
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- W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education 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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