Excelsior Preparatory High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 29Q265
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Global History
- 75.8%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 19.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 68.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 67.3% of the 168 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Excelsior Preparatory High School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the US History Regents it was 62.5% of 168 test takers (city: 69.8%).
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 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (68.3% against 42%, +26.3 points) and the weakest is Earth Science (19.4% against 44.1%, −24.7 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Global History (75.8%) and the lowest on Earth Science (19.4%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 57.9% in 2017-18 (171 test takers) to 67.3% in 2024-25 (168), up 9.4 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 74.3% to 71.7% (−2.6 points). The largest move on any other exam is Global History: 49.5% in 2017-18, 75.8% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Excelsior Preparatory High School ranks 290th (tied with 2 other schools at 67.3%). In Queens it is 65th of 94.
Physics: 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 | 142 | 68.3% | 42% | +26.3 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 80 | 46.3% | 42.7% | +3.6 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 34 | 70.6% | 61.5% | +9.1 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 168 | 67.3% | 71.7% | −4.4 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 121 | 57.9% | 47.6% | +10.3 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 31 | 19.4% | 44.1% | −24.7 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 36 | 38.9% | 53.6% | −14.7 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 14 | not published | 62.8% | — | 54.2% |
| Global History | 99 | 75.8% | 73.3% | +2.5 | 77.6% |
| US History | 168 | 62.5% | 69.8% | −7.3 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 17 | 70.6% | 92.1% | −21.5 | 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 Excelsior Preparatory 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 | 87.1%132 | 74.3%144 | 66.2%68 | 90.1%161 | 72.6%117 | 68.3%142 |
| Geometry | 63.2%57 | 67.6%68 | 52.9%51 | 88.9%45 | 44.7%94 | 46.3%80 |
| Algebra II | 50%32 | 93.3%30 | 87%54 | 94.9%39 | 100%20 | 70.6%34 |
| English (ELA) | 57.9%171 | 77.4%155 | 75%104 | 64.8%159 | 67.4%178 | 67.3%168 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 59.9%152 | 63.4%161 | 67.5%77 | 74.6%130 | 69.5%118 | 57.9%121 |
| Earth Science | — | — | — | — | n/p13 | 19.4%31 |
| Chemistry | 51.7%58 | 52.9%68 | 8.1%74 | 52.6%78 | 37.8%37 | 38.9%36 |
| Physics | n/p10 | 5.6%18 | 8.6%35 | 4.8%21 | n/p8 | n/p14 |
| Global History | 49.5%192 | 67.3%159 | 82.6%109 | 82.4%125 | 80.5%128 | 75.8%99 |
| US History | 56.9%255 | 36.6%194 | — | 46.8%124 | 65%140 | 62.5%168 |
| Languages Other Than English | 70.8%24 | 58.6%29 | 79.3%29 | 67.7%31 | 85.7%21 | 70.6%17 |
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.
- Excelsior Preparatory 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.
- Excelsior Preparatory 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.