47 The American Sign Language and English Secondary School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 02M047
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: US History
- 75.7%
- Lowest: Physics
- 8%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 33.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 67.4% of the 46 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at 47 The American Sign Language and English Secondary School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 35% of 40 test takers (city: 47.6%).
Source: New York City Department of Education, School Quality Reports (NYC Open Data, dataset dnpx-dfnc), data updated 2026-04-09. School year 2024-25. City rates are computed by GeniusPrep from the published school figures.
2 of the 9 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is US History (75.7% against 69.8%, +5.9 points) and the weakest is Languages Other Than English (32.3% against 92.1%, −59.8 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on US History (75.7%) and the lowest on Physics (8%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 87.8% in 2017-18 (41 test takers) to 67.4% in 2024-25 (46), down 20.4 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 74.3% to 71.7% (−2.6 points). The largest move on any other exam is Languages Other Than English: 100% in 2017-18, 32.3% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, 47 The American Sign Language and English Secondary School ranks 288th (tied with 1 other school at 67.4%). In Manhattan it is 86th of 137.
Geometry: fewer than 15 students sat this exam here in 2024-25, so the DOE published no pass rate. The number of test takers is still shown in the table. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Chemistry.
Every Regents exam, 2024-25
Share of the students who took each exam at this school during the 2024-25 school year who scored 65 or higher, next to the same rate across New York City and Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 21 | 33.3% | 42% | −8.7 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 13 | not published | 42.7% | — | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 39 | 30.8% | 61.5% | −30.7 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 46 | 67.4% | 71.7% | −4.3 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 40 | 35% | 47.6% | −12.6 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 21 | 47.6% | 44.1% | +3.5 | 47.2% |
| Physics | 25 | 8% | 62.8% | −54.8 | 67% |
| Global History | 39 | 56.4% | 73.3% | −16.9 | 76.4% |
| US History | 37 | 75.7% | 69.8% | +5.9 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 31 | 32.3% | 92.1% | −59.8 | 93.9% |
“Not published”: fewer than 15 students took the exam here that year, and the DOE withholds the rate. The exam names link to our score calculator for that exam, which converts a raw score with the official NYSED chart.
Preparing for the Regents at 47 The American Sign Language & English?
Year by year, 2017-18 to 2024-25
Percent scoring 65 or higher, with the number of test takers underneath. The DOE published no Regents pass rates for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, when most Regents exams were cancelled during the pandemic.
| Exam | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 44.7%47 | 64.2%81 | 26.8%41 | 46.3%41 | 28.9%38 | 33.3%21 |
| Geometry | 41.9%31 | 45.8%24 | 0%43 | n/p13 | 22%50 | n/p13 |
| Algebra II | 36.7%30 | 26.9%52 | 15.8%57 | 13.6%44 | 26.9%26 | 30.8%39 |
| English (ELA) | 87.8%41 | 84.6%52 | 68.3%41 | 82.8%58 | 68.6%35 | 67.4%46 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 61.4%44 | 72.1%61 | 72.5%51 | 41.9%31 | 39%41 | 35%40 |
| Earth Science | 55.2%58 | 41.5%65 | 14.7%34 | 54.8%42 | 27.3%33 | 47.6%21 |
| Physics | — | n/p2 | 3.3%30 | 9.4%32 | 11.1%27 | 8%25 |
| Global History | 69.8%63 | 66.7%39 | 78.6%42 | 76%50 | 68.4%38 | 56.4%39 |
| US History | 67.4%46 | 60%55 | — | 68.4%38 | 55.6%45 | 75.7%37 |
| Languages Other Than English | 100%26 | 62.8%43 | 37.8%37 | 47.6%42 | 74.2%31 | 32.3%31 |
n/p: not published (fewer than 15 test takers). A dash: no line for this school and exam in the DOE file that year. From 2024-25, the DOE groups Living Environment with the new Life Science: Biology exam and reports Earth Science as Earth and Space Sciences. Nothing on this page is estimated.
Next
- Regents pass rates for the 557 New York City public schools with 2024-25 figures — city and borough rates for every exam, and those schools side by side.
- 47 The American Sign Language & English average SAT score — the same school on the SAT, from the same DOE reports.
- Regents score calculator — turn a raw score into the official scale score, for every exam and sitting since 2014.
- What a 65 costs on each Regents exam — how many raw points the passing mark has taken, sitting by sitting.
- Regents tutoring — one-on-one preparation for the exam your child is sitting next.
- 47 The American Sign Language and English 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 (data updated 2026-04-09). Metric definitions: DOE School Quality educator guide. Method and caveats are set out on the index page.