Columbia Secondary School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 05M362
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Algebra II
- 100%
- Lowest: Physics
- 48.5%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 73.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 78.4% of the 111 students who took the Geometry Regents at Columbia Secondary School scored 65 or higher, against 42.7% across the 389 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 94.5% of 110 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.
9 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Living Environment / Biology (88.2% against 47.6%, +40.6 points) and the weakest is Physics (48.5% against 62.8%, −14.3 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Algebra II (100%) and the lowest on Physics (48.5%).
On Geometry, the pass rate went from 94.3% in 2017-18 (122 test takers) to 78.4% in 2024-25 (111), down 15.9 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 56.7% to 42.7% (−14 points). The largest move on any other exam is Physics: 84.4% in 2017-18, 48.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 389 schools with a published Geometry rate in 2024-25, Columbia Secondary School ranks 27th. In Manhattan it is 10th of 90.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Earth Science.
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 Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 30 | 73.3% | 42% | +31.3 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 111 | 78.4% | 42.7% | +35.7 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 109 | 100% | 61.5% | +38.5 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 110 | 94.5% | 71.7% | +22.8 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 85 | 88.2% | 47.6% | +40.6 | 50% |
| Chemistry | 90 | 76.7% | 53.6% | +23.1 | 60.2% |
| Physics | 33 | 48.5% | 62.8% | −14.3 | 67% |
| Global History | 37 | 94.6% | 73.3% | +21.3 | 76.4% |
| US History | 80 | 93.8% | 69.8% | +24 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 20 | 100% | 92.1% | +7.9 | 93.9% |
“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 Columbia Secondary 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 | 86.2%29 | 83.3%18 | 95.5%22 | 75.7%37 | 77.8%36 | 73.3%30 |
| Geometry | 94.3%122 | 90.6%106 | 82.5%97 | 89.6%96 | 79%105 | 78.4%111 |
| Algebra II | 97.8%90 | 96.6%89 | n/p1 | 98.6%72 | 100%85 | 100%109 |
| English (ELA) | 90.4%104 | 97.3%113 | 96.9%98 | 93.9%114 | 95.5%111 | 94.5%110 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 95.4%109 | 96.9%96 | 98.8%85 | 95.7%93 | 96.5%85 | 88.2%85 |
| Earth Science | n/p1 | 90.5%21 | n/p6 | n/p9 | 100%32 | — |
| Chemistry | 98.4%62 | 98.4%63 | 100%15 | 81.3%32 | 95.2%84 | 76.7%90 |
| Physics | 84.4%32 | 92%25 | n/p1 | n/p9 | 100%22 | 48.5%33 |
| Global History | n/p6 | n/p5 | — | n/p5 | 93.9%33 | 94.6%37 |
| US History | 92.9%28 | 76.9%39 | — | 92.1%89 | 97.1%105 | 93.8%80 |
| Languages Other Than English | 98.1%52 | 95.5%67 | 91.6%83 | 97.4%76 | 100%52 | 100%20 |
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.
- Columbia Secondary 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.
- Columbia Secondary 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.