Benjamin Banneker Academy: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 13K670
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 95.5%
- Lowest: Physics
- 21.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 71.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 88.1% of the 268 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Benjamin Banneker Academy scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Global History Regents it was 89.8% of 225 test takers (city: 73.3%).
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.
9 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (71.2% against 42%, +29.2 points) and the weakest is Physics (21.4% against 62.8%, −41.4 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (95.5%) and the lowest on Physics (21.4%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 75.5% in 2017-18 (237 test takers) to 88.1% in 2024-25 (268), up 12.6 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 Chemistry: 12.7% in 2018-19, 43.8% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Benjamin Banneker Academy ranks 74th (tied with 3 other schools at 88.1%). In Brooklyn it is 12th of 152.
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 | 205 | 71.2% | 42% | +29.2 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 116 | 46.6% | 42.7% | +3.9 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 168 | 88.7% | 61.5% | +27.2 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 268 | 88.1% | 71.7% | +16.4 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 190 | 54.2% | 47.6% | +6.6 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 164 | 66.5% | 44.1% | +22.4 | 46% |
| Chemistry | 112 | 43.8% | 53.6% | −9.8 | 54.7% |
| Physics | 28 | 21.4% | 62.8% | −41.4 | 66.5% |
| Global History | 225 | 89.8% | 73.3% | +16.5 | 71% |
| US History | 203 | 77.3% | 69.8% | +7.5 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 44 | 95.5% | 92.1% | +3.4 | 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 | 73.6%406 | 78.9%375 | 78.5%93 | 84.7%274 | 71.5%284 | 71.2%205 |
| Geometry | 40.8%262 | 34.4%270 | 24.4%197 | 31.3%217 | 59.5%121 | 46.6%116 |
| Algebra II | 63.5%137 | 59.5%173 | 34%197 | 47.1%221 | 48.2%168 | 88.7%168 |
| English (ELA) | 75.5%237 | 88.2%313 | 75.9%228 | 90.6%308 | 90.6%224 | 88.1%268 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 71.1%211 | 74.8%202 | 78.9%114 | 63.3%139 | 63.6%162 | 54.2%190 |
| Earth Science | 63%208 | 54.2%190 | 48%150 | 56.2%162 | 44.4%144 | 66.5%164 |
| Chemistry | n/p5 | 12.7%63 | 26.3%114 | 23.6%161 | 59.2%103 | 43.8%112 |
| Physics | 36.1%36 | 20.6%34 | 5.7%35 | 25.9%27 | 66.7%18 | 21.4%28 |
| Global History | 89.3%121 | 90.8%325 | 73.8%206 | 76.2%189 | 88%150 | 89.8%225 |
| US History | 63.1%301 | 64.9%291 | — | 73.2%153 | 78%241 | 77.3%203 |
| Languages Other Than English | 95.3%85 | 100%52 | 53.4%58 | 86.3%51 | 86.4%66 | 95.5%44 |
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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- Benjamin Banneker Academy 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.
- Benjamin Banneker Academy 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.