Academy for Young Writers: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
7 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K404
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 7
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 64.2%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 4.2%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 32.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 32.3% of the 96 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Academy for Young Writers scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 64.2% of 81 test takers (city: 71.7%).
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.
All 7 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on English (ELA) (−7.5 points against the city's 71.7%), the largest on Geometry (4.2% against 42.7%, 38.5 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (64.2%) and the lowest on Geometry (4.2%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 41.2% in 2017-18 (153 test takers) to 32.3% in 2024-25 (96), down 8.9 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 57.5% to 42% (−15.5 points). The largest move on any other exam is Living Environment / Biology: 52.3% in 2017-18, 25% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Academy for Young Writers ranks 321st. In Brooklyn it is 87th of 147.
Algebra II and Languages Other Than English: fewer than 15 students sat these exams 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 and Physics.
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 Brooklyn.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Brooklyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 96 | 32.3% | 42% | −9.7 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 48 | 4.2% | 42.7% | −38.5 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 9 | not published | 61.5% | — | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 81 | 64.2% | 71.7% | −7.5 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 60 | 25% | 47.6% | −22.6 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 30 | 30% | 44.1% | −14.1 | 46% |
| Global History | 74 | 59.5% | 73.3% | −13.8 | 71% |
| US History | 55 | 58.2% | 69.8% | −11.6 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 13 | not published | 92.1% | — | 92.4% |
“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.
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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 | 41.2%153 | 50.3%161 | 22.4%85 | 33.2%205 | 37.1%167 | 32.3%96 |
| Geometry | 15.5%58 | 17.4%23 | 0%20 | 9.3%43 | 1.6%64 | 4.2%48 |
| Algebra II | 13.6%22 | n/p10 | n/p8 | n/p11 | 33.3%18 | n/p9 |
| English (ELA) | 64%111 | 78.9%128 | 71%100 | 63.9%133 | 72.9%118 | 64.2%81 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 52.3%151 | 45.1%144 | 43.4%83 | 28%93 | 30.8%91 | 25%60 |
| Earth Science | 42.4%66 | 39.7%58 | n/p4 | 60%15 | 52.4%21 | 30%30 |
| Chemistry | — | 0%19 | n/p10 | 0%46 | 1.9%53 | — |
| Global History | 56.2%130 | 68.4%117 | 54.5%167 | 14%43 | 51.9%81 | 59.5%74 |
| US History | 62.2%90 | 54.5%77 | — | 46%63 | 37.1%62 | 58.2%55 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p8 | 77.8%18 | n/p4 | n/p6 | n/p10 | n/p13 |
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.
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- 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.
- Academy for Young Writers 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.
- Academy for Young Writers 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.