Boys and Girls High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
8 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 16K455
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 8
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 42.5%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 0%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 15.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 15.4% of the 130 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Boys and Girls High School scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 29.8% of 114 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.
All 8 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Living Environment / Biology (−17.8 points against the city's 47.6%), the largest on Geometry (0% against 42.7%, 42.7 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (42.5%) and the lowest on Geometry (0%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 32.4% in 2017-18 (179 test takers) to 15.4% in 2024-25 (130), down 17 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 US History: 65.1% in 2017-18, 35.8% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Boys and Girls High School ranks 484th (tied with 1 other school at 15.4%). In Brooklyn it is 133rd of 147.
Physics 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.
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 | 130 | 15.4% | 42% | −26.6 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 43 | 0% | 42.7% | −42.7 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 32 | 21.9% | 61.5% | −39.6 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 80 | 42.5% | 71.7% | −29.2 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 114 | 29.8% | 47.6% | −17.8 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 39 | 10.3% | 44.1% | −33.8 | 46% |
| Physics | 8 | not published | 62.8% | — | 66.5% |
| Global History | 112 | 38.4% | 73.3% | −34.9 | 71% |
| US History | 81 | 35.8% | 69.8% | −34 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 6 | 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.
Preparing for the Regents at Boys and Girls 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 | 32.4%179 | 23.7%207 | 14.4%90 | 24.7%215 | 13.8%152 | 15.4%130 |
| Geometry | 15.5%58 | 6.7%75 | 0%76 | 5.3%76 | 4.3%70 | 0%43 |
| Algebra II | 15.6%32 | 14.3%21 | 3.6%83 | 1.9%53 | 14%50 | 21.9%32 |
| English (ELA) | 64.1%117 | 73.4%169 | 56.4%78 | 60.2%166 | 50%108 | 42.5%80 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 36.5%178 | 31.6%171 | 21.7%69 | 26.1%88 | 33.7%104 | 29.8%114 |
| Earth Science | 7.1%28 | 43.6%39 | 0%15 | n/p13 | 33%97 | 10.3%39 |
| Chemistry | 11.5%26 | — | 0%31 | 0%27 | — | — |
| Physics | — | — | — | — | — | n/p8 |
| Global History | 49.7%167 | 64%139 | 38.1%105 | 47.1%102 | 44.1%102 | 38.4%112 |
| US History | 65.1%83 | 67.3%113 | — | n/p14 | 35.1%77 | 35.8%81 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p12 | n/p14 | 38.9%18 | n/p10 | n/p10 | n/p6 |
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.
- Boys and Girls 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.
- Boys and Girls 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.