Design Works High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
7 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 13K963
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 7
- Highest: Chemistry
- 84.2%
- Lowest: Algebra I
- 51.2%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 51.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 64.7% of the 116 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Design Works High School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Algebra I Regents it was 51.2% of 86 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.
5 of the 7 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Chemistry (84.2% against 53.6%, +30.6 points) and the weakest is Algebra II (53.8% against 61.5%, −7.7 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Chemistry (84.2%) and the lowest on Algebra I (51.2%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 77.6% in 2023-24 (76 test takers) to 64.7% in 2024-25 (116), down 12.9 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 74.5% to 71.7% (−2.8 points).
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Design Works High School ranks 314th (tied with 2 other schools at 64.7%). In Brooklyn it is 64th of 152.
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. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Physics, US History and Languages Other Than English.
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 | 86 | 51.2% | 42% | +9.2 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 45 | 71.1% | 42.7% | +28.4 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 26 | 53.8% | 61.5% | −7.7 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 116 | 64.7% | 71.7% | −7 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 78 | 59% | 47.6% | +11.4 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 1 | not published | 44.1% | — | 46% |
| Chemistry | 38 | 84.2% | 53.6% | +30.6 | 54.7% |
| Global History | 66 | 80.3% | 73.3% | +7 | 71% |
“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, 2023-24 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 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 51.9%52 | 51.2%86 |
| Geometry | — | 71.1%45 |
| Algebra II | 60%25 | 53.8%26 |
| English (ELA) | 77.6%76 | 64.7%116 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 52.9%51 | 59%78 |
| Earth Science | 96.4%28 | n/p1 |
| Chemistry | — | 84.2%38 |
| Global History | — | 80.3%66 |
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.
- 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.
- Design Works 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.