FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
7 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K502
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 7
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 39.1%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 9.5%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 20%
In the 2024-25 school year, 20% of the 185 students who took the Algebra I Regents at FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Global History Regents it was 31.3% of 131 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 7 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Algebra I (−22 points against the city's 42%), the largest on Algebra II (18.8% against 61.5%, 42.7 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (39.1%) and the lowest on Earth Science (9.5%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 39.6% in 2017-18 (154 test takers) to 20% in 2024-25 (185), down 19.6 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 Global History: 59.7% in 2017-18, 31.3% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety ranks 451st (tied with 3 other schools at 20%). In Brooklyn it is 125th of 147.
Geometry 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 and Physics.
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 | 185 | 20% | 42% | −22 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 14 | not published | 42.7% | — | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 32 | 18.8% | 61.5% | −42.7 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 69 | 39.1% | 71.7% | −32.6 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 114 | 25.4% | 47.6% | −22.2 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 116 | 9.5% | 44.1% | −34.6 | 46% |
| Global History | 131 | 31.3% | 73.3% | −42 | 71% |
| US History | 41 | 29.3% | 69.8% | −40.5 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 3 | 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.
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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 | 39.6%154 | 42.6%115 | 25.8%97 | 41.5%130 | 11.2%98 | 20%185 |
| Geometry | 13.8%29 | n/p10 | 0%15 | 5.9%17 | n/p9 | n/p14 |
| Algebra II | n/p12 | n/p2 | 0%36 | 26.7%30 | 5.9%34 | 18.8%32 |
| English (ELA) | 48.1%158 | 51.3%119 | 43.1%123 | 31.9%138 | 48.5%33 | 39.1%69 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 46.7%90 | 45.3%86 | 68%25 | 25.9%54 | 28.1%57 | 25.4%114 |
| Earth Science | 26.3%76 | 19.1%47 | 7.1%28 | 17.3%52 | 11.4%44 | 9.5%116 |
| Global History | 59.7%62 | 51.9%81 | 37.8%37 | 27.5%40 | 50%44 | 31.3%131 |
| US History | 39%154 | 18%111 | — | 29.5%61 | n/p3 | 29.3%41 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p1 | 74%50 | n/p14 | — | n/p6 | n/p3 |
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.
- FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard 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.
- FDNY - Captain Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety 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.