Benjamin Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 29Q313
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 84.6%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 34.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 72.9%
In the 2024-25 school year, 41.3% of the 104 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at Benjamin Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology scored 65 or higher, against 47.6% across the 504 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Algebra I Regents it was 72.9% of 96 test takers (city: 42%).
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.
6 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (72.9% against 42%, +30.9 points) and the weakest is Geometry (34.7% against 42.7%, −8 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (84.6%) and the lowest on Geometry (34.7%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 56.7% in 2017-18 (120 test takers) to 41.3% in 2024-25 (104), down 15.4 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 62.7% to 47.6% (−15.1 points). The largest move on any other exam is Global History: 56.2% in 2017-18, 81.2% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, Benjamin Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology ranks 285th (tied with 2 other schools at 41.3%). In Queens it is 55th of 87.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on 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 Queens.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Queens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 96 | 72.9% | 42% | +30.9 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 49 | 34.7% | 42.7% | −8 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 39 | 56.4% | 61.5% | −5.1 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 86 | 80.2% | 71.7% | +8.5 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 104 | 41.3% | 47.6% | −6.3 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 85 | 48.2% | 44.1% | +4.1 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 23 | 56.5% | 53.6% | +2.9 | 49.4% |
| Global History | 85 | 81.2% | 73.3% | +7.9 | 77.6% |
| US History | 78 | 73.1% | 69.8% | +3.3 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 26 | 84.6% | 92.1% | −7.5 | 91.9% |
“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 Benjamin Franklin?
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 | 49.7%155 | 53.8%145 | 40.3%67 | 71.6%102 | 70.1%87 | 72.9%96 |
| Geometry | 33.7%101 | 25.9%147 | 0%62 | 29.1%55 | 27.7%65 | 34.7%49 |
| Algebra II | 80%20 | 80.5%41 | 23.9%46 | 37.9%29 | 73%37 | 56.4%39 |
| English (ELA) | 77.1%131 | 78.2%110 | 85.9%71 | 68.4%98 | 74.6%142 | 80.2%86 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 56.7%120 | 57.7%104 | 58.6%58 | 66.2%74 | 57.1%77 | 41.3%104 |
| Earth Science | 59.4%101 | 59.8%97 | 28.3%60 | 59.4%64 | 63.1%84 | 48.2%85 |
| Chemistry | 80%25 | 72.5%40 | n/p1 | 72.2%18 | 87%23 | 56.5%23 |
| Global History | 56.2%130 | 68.6%121 | 83.1%65 | 62.7%83 | 82.8%87 | 81.2%85 |
| US History | 73.6%110 | 65.6%90 | — | 48.5%66 | 79.2%77 | 73.1%78 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p3 | 100%19 | n/p14 | n/p12 | 86.7%15 | 84.6%26 |
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.
- Benjamin Franklin 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 Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology 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.