Exclusive | NYC students score far below state, national averages on SAT, marking some of the lowest score in years

New York City students scored far below the rest of the state and country on the SAT — producing the lowest average scores in at least seven years, troubling new data show.Public school students in the Big Apple scored an average 473 on the math portion of last year’s standardized test, which is widely used for college admissions in the US.It was a whopping 71 points below the average for the rest of New York, and 32 points below that of the rest of the country.Reading and writing scores remained flat, with NYC students averaging 482, the same as 2023 — but the rest of the state and country again far outperformed the city, with average scores of 553 and 519, respectively.The math and reading and writing portions of the test are each scored out of 800, making the highest possible score a 1600.“It’s another wake up call for New York City Public Schools to concentrate on improved instruction in core subjects,” remarked David Bloomfield, an educator professor at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.The Big Apple’s SAT flop continued a steady decline that began in 2022 and marked the lowest average cores in at least seven years, according to data released by the city Department of Education Friday.The tests are typically administered from August through June.

A school-by-school or borough breakdown was not immediately available.Bloomfield was shocked by an especially wide gap between Asian and white test takers compared to Black and Hispanics.Performance among each demographic on the math portion dropped in NYC compared to 2023.Asian students scored an average 582, down four points from the year before, and white students averaged a 536, down eight points from the year prior.

But Hispanic students scored an average of 430 on the math section — more than 100 points less than their white counterparts and five points less than they did the year before.Black students scored an average of 426, down two points from 2023, and 118 points lower than th...