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Emma Lazarus High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 02M394
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 98%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 62.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 87.7%
In the 2024-25 school year, 72% of the 82 students who took the Geometry Regents at Emma Lazarus High School scored 65 or higher, against 42.7% across the 389 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Global History Regents it was 91.1% of 79 test takers (city: 73.3%).
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 9 exams with a published figure here come in above the city rate. The widest margin is on Algebra I (87.7%, 45.7 points above the city's 42%), the narrowest on Languages Other Than English (+5.9 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (98%) and the lowest on Earth Science (62.7%).
On Geometry, the pass rate went from 67.1% in 2017-18 (70 test takers) to 72% in 2024-25 (82), up 4.9 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 Earth Science: 84.6% in 2017-18, 62.7% in 2024-25.
Among the 389 schools with a published Geometry rate in 2024-25, Emma Lazarus High School ranks 33rd. In Manhattan it is 13th of 90.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Chemistry and Physics.
Emma Lazarus High School is a transfer school: the DOE files it under its "High School Transfer" report, for schools that enroll students who are over-age or behind in credits. Its pass rates describe that population and are not a like-for-like comparison with a four-year high school.
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 | 73 | 87.7% | 42% | +45.7 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 82 | 72% | 42.7% | +29.3 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 42 | 73.8% | 61.5% | +12.3 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 58 | 94.8% | 71.7% | +23.1 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 69 | 78.3% | 47.6% | +30.7 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 75 | 62.7% | 44.1% | +18.6 | 47.2% |
| Global History | 79 | 91.1% | 73.3% | +17.8 | 76.4% |
| US History | 65 | 83.1% | 69.8% | +13.3 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 51 | 98% | 92.1% | +5.9 | 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.
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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 | 84.7%85 | 88.6%79 | 67.7%31 | 85.3%109 | 85.7%84 | 87.7%73 |
| Geometry | 67.1%70 | 76.8%82 | 58.8%17 | 75.9%54 | 88.1%67 | 72%82 |
| Algebra II | 78.7%47 | 97.3%37 | 54.8%31 | 71.4%21 | 93%43 | 73.8%42 |
| English (ELA) | 90.1%91 | 97.5%81 | 81.3%32 | 55.2%58 | 90.5%63 | 94.8%58 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 87.4%103 | 77.2%92 | 78.3%23 | 76.7%90 | 69.9%83 | 78.3%69 |
| Earth Science | 84.6%52 | 70.4%81 | 42.9%35 | 60%50 | 79.7%74 | 62.7%75 |
| Global History | 74.1%108 | 86.2%94 | 67.7%65 | 78.9%76 | 85.9%64 | 91.1%79 |
| US History | 97.1%70 | 76.3%76 | — | 86.8%53 | 87.7%65 | 83.1%65 |
| Languages Other Than English | 98.8%85 | 98.3%60 | n/p6 | 100%40 | 100%94 | 98%51 |
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.
- Emma Lazarus 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.
- Emma Lazarus 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.