Open data on New York City schools
New York publishes an enormous amount about its schools and almost none of it in a form a parent can read. What we put here is the same public data, cleaned, graphed and left free to use, with the source named on every page. Nothing is estimated, smoothed or carried forward: a year the city did not measure is simply absent.
The dataset
Two datasets today, and we say so
There are exactly two published here. When there is a third, this page will list three.
“Where does this school actually stand?”
NYC High School SAT Scoreboard
The official average SAT score of every New York City public high school that reported one, 2017 to 2024, sortable by borough and by score, with a graphed page of its own for each school that has at least two measured years. The city publishes these figures and compares them to nothing; this is the comparison. Read straight from New York City Department of Education’s own release, never a ranking we invented.
- Schools
- 549
- School pages
- 499
- Measurements
- 3,766
- Years covered
- 2017–2024
Open the scoreboard →
“Is this Regents getting harder?”
What a 65 Costs on Each Regents Exam
A 65 is not a fixed number of correct answers. New York writes the conversion chart after each sitting is marked, so the raw score that lands on 65 moves from one June to the next. We take that single number out of every published chart and put 9 exams on the same scale, with the full session-by-session series for each. It is the only figure in the set that is ours: the charts are public, the movement nobody had drawn.
- Exams charted
- 9
- Sittings read
- 203
- Years covered
- 2014–2026
- Figures invented
- 0
Open the difficulty series →
Source: NYC Open Data — School Quality Reports, Multi-Year Metrics, New York City Department of Education. NYC Open Data — public domain, attribution requested. The whole set is downloadable as CSV or JSON — reuse it, and a link back is welcome rather than required.
Looking for a tool rather than a table?
A dataset answers “how do these compare?”. A tool answers “what does my number mean?”, and those live next door. The free tools hub holds a score calculator and a curve history for every Regents exam, built on the 206 conversion charts the State Education Department has published since June 2014, plus a test registration planner and an ISEE score explainer.
Everything on both hubs is free and needs no account. We build them because a family that can see the numbers asks better questions when they call us — and because the city’s own data deserves a reader.
Take the next step
A number on a chart is not a plan
Tell us the school your child is aiming at and the score they have today. We start with a diagnostic, so the work is built on the distance you actually have to cover.