Westchester Square Academy: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#355 of 548 citywide · 828/1600 in 2024 · Bronx · DBN 08X558
- SAT total, 2024
- 828
- Math
- 400
- Reading & writing
- 428
- Students counted
- 79
In 2024, students at Westchester Square Academy who sat the SAT averaged 828 out of 1600 — 400 on Math and 428 on Reading and Writing. That is 151 points below the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Bronx, where the average is 908, it is 80 points lower. Citywide it ranks 355 of 548. In Bronx it is 76 of 146.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 967 in 2017 to 828 in 2024, down 139 points. The peak was 967 in 2017 and the floor 826 in 2022, a spread of 141 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is behind by 102 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2022 and 2023, when the average rose 93 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 152 of 453 in 2017 to 309 of 461 in 2024, a slide of 157 places.
The 2024 figure is the average of 79 students at this school who actually sat the exam — not of the whole graduating class. That number has fallen sharply since 2017, when 136 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, 8% on Math and 24% 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 Bronx that year belonged to The Bronx High School of Science, at 1447, 619 points ahead of Westchester Square Academy. 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 | 967 | 482 | 486 | 136 | 27% | 46% |
| 2018 | 924 | 468 | 457 | 126 | 24% | 32% |
| 2019 | 905 | 451 | 454 | 106 | 19% | 31% |
| 2020 | 850 | 425 | 425 | 94 | 9% | 16% |
| 2021 | 892 | 434 | 458 | 82 | 8% | 26% |
| 2022 | 826 | 411 | 415 | 83 | 4% | 12% |
| 2023 | 919 | 449 | 470 | 15 | 3% | 5% |
| 2024 | 828 | 400 | 428 | 79 | 8% | 24% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Bronx, 2024 | 908 | 449 | 459 | 8,544 | — | — |
“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.
Next
- 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.
- Westchester Square Academy 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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