Young Women's Leadership School, Queens: average SAT score, 2017-2024
#51 of 548 citywide · 1072/1600 in 2024 · Queens · DBN 28Q896
- SAT total, 2024
- 1072
- Math
- 539
- Reading & writing
- 533
- Students counted
- 63
In 2024, students at Young Women's Leadership School, Queens who sat the SAT averaged 1072 out of 1600 — 539 on Math and 533 on Reading and Writing. That is 93 points above the 979 averaged across the 461 New York City high schools that reported a score that year. Within Queens, where the average is 966, it is 106 points higher. Citywide it ranks 51 of 548. In Queens it is 13 of 92.
Across 8 measured years, the school's average went from 1036 in 2017 to 1072 in 2024, up 36 points. The peak was 1100 in 2018 and the floor 1009 in 2019, a spread of 91 points. Citywide the average moved down 37 points over the same span, so relative to the rest of New York this school is ahead by 73 points.
The sharpest single move came between 2018 and 2019, when the average dropped 91 points in one year. Its place in the citywide order moved from 86 of 453 in 2017 to 49 of 461 in 2024, a climb of 37 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, 58% on Math and 67% on Reading and Writing cleared the College Board's college-readiness benchmark.
The highest average in Queens that year belonged to Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, at 1463, 391 points ahead of Young Women's Leadership School, Queens. 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 | 1036 | 511 | 526 | 73 | 38% | 68% |
| 2018 | 1100 | 546 | 554 | 74 | 63% | 76% |
| 2019 | 1009 | 503 | 506 | 69 | 42% | 65% |
| 2020 | 1038 | 526 | 512 | 63 | 48% | 77% |
| 2021 | 1089 | 538 | 551 | 73 | 56% | 78% |
| 2022 | 1032 | 511 | 521 | 73 | 46% | 62% |
| 2023 | 1050 | 517 | 533 | 68 | 49% | 67% |
| 2024 | 1072 | 539 | 533 | 63 | 58% | 67% |
| City, 2024 | 979 | 487 | 492 | 53,619 | — | — |
| Queens, 2024 | 966 | 483 | 483 | 15,230 | — | — |
“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.
- Young Women's Leadership School, Queens 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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