Benjamin N. Cardozo High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 26Q415
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 92.8%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 6.2%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 45.8%
In the 2024-25 school year, 70% of the 991 students who took the Algebra II Regents at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School scored 65 or higher, against 61.5% across the 366 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 77.9% of 824 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.
7 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is US History (87.2% against 69.8%, +17.4 points) and the weakest is Chemistry (6.2% against 53.6%, −47.4 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (92.8%) and the lowest on Chemistry (6.2%).
On Algebra II, the pass rate went from 85.3% in 2017-18 (625 test takers) to 70% in 2024-25 (991), down 15.3 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 71% to 61.5% (−9.5 points). The largest move on any other exam is Geometry: 80.2% in 2017-18, 17.8% in 2024-25.
Among the 366 schools with a published Algebra II rate in 2024-25, Benjamin N. Cardozo High School ranks 96th (tied with 1 other school at 70%). In Queens it is 23rd of 76.
Earth Science: 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.
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 | 603 | 45.8% | 42% | +3.8 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 107 | 17.8% | 42.7% | −24.9 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 991 | 70% | 61.5% | +8.5 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 824 | 77.9% | 71.7% | +6.2 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 625 | 48.6% | 47.6% | +1 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 1 | not published | 44.1% | — | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 178 | 6.2% | 53.6% | −47.4 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 824 | 39.2% | 62.8% | −23.6 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 751 | 84.2% | 73.3% | +10.9 | 77.6% |
| US History | 701 | 87.2% | 69.8% | +17.4 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 457 | 92.8% | 92.1% | +0.7 | 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 N. Cardozo High School?
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 | 70.7%819 | 69.4%690 | 58%364 | 58.2%457 | 48.4%450 | 45.8%603 |
| Geometry | 80.2%732 | 80%721 | 45.6%684 | 50.2%624 | 51%686 | 17.8%107 |
| Algebra II | 85.3%625 | 86.5%586 | 60%597 | 49.3%653 | 66.7%544 | 70%991 |
| English (ELA) | 85.1%1,018 | 91%949 | 84.4%831 | 75.7%786 | 79.3%767 | 77.9%824 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 78.5%847 | 77.9%792 | 80.2%364 | 62.9%493 | 57.2%472 | 48.6%625 |
| Earth Science | 26.4%106 | n/p5 | n/p3 | n/p1 | n/p3 | n/p1 |
| Chemistry | 68.2%695 | 56%800 | 43.8%726 | 53.8%580 | 50.9%591 | 6.2%178 |
| Physics | 72.1%458 | 74.4%442 | 35.1%498 | 44.5%488 | 43.8%386 | 39.2%824 |
| Global History | 80.5%1,083 | 86%914 | 85.9%809 | 83.7%713 | 86.8%690 | 84.2%751 |
| US History | 90.1%934 | 89.3%867 | — | 80.6%660 | 86.4%594 | 87.2%701 |
| Languages Other Than English | 93.1%583 | 91.6%582 | 80.6%597 | 91.9%569 | 93.6%345 | 92.8%457 |
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 N. Cardozo High School 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 N. Cardozo High 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.