West End Secondary School: average SAT score, 2021-2024
#29 of 548 citywide · 1147/1600 in 2024 · Manhattan · DBN 03M291
- SAT total, 2024
- 1147
- Math
- 554
- Reading & writing
- 593
- Students counted
- 100
In 2024, students at West End Secondary School who sat the SAT averaged 1147 out of 1600 — 554 on Math and 593 on Reading and Writing. That is 168 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 113 points higher. Citywide it ranks 29 of 548, inside the top fifty. In Manhattan it is 16 of 140.
Across 4 measured years, the school's average went from 1146 in 2021 to 1147 in 2024, up 1 points. The peak was 1157 in 2023 and the floor 1135 in 2022, a spread of 22 points. Citywide the average moved down 32 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 33 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2022 and 2023, when the average rose 22 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order has hardly changed: 33 of 461 in 2021, 29 of 461 in 2024.
The 2024 figure is the average of 100 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. Of those test takers, 55% on Math and 78% 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, 350 points ahead of West End Secondary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1146 | 554 | 592 | 86 | 47% | 69% |
| 2022 | 1135 | 547 | 588 | 77 | 49% | 71% |
| 2023 | 1157 | 564 | 593 | 94 | 55% | 80% |
| 2024 | 1147 | 554 | 593 | 100 | 55% | 78% |
| 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.
- West End Secondary 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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