Forest Hills High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 28Q440
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 96.8%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 38.5%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 47.1%
In the 2024-25 school year, 80.1% of the 914 students who took the Global History Regents at Forest Hills High School scored 65 or higher, against 73.3% across the 499 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 81.6% of 861 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 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra II (76.4% against 61.5%, +14.9 points) and the weakest is Physics (53% against 62.8%, −9.8 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (96.8%) and the lowest on Earth Science (38.5%).
On Global History, the pass rate went from 76.5% in 2017-18 (1,078 test takers) to 80.1% in 2024-25 (914), up 3.6 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 64.1% to 73.3% (+9.2 points). The largest move on any other exam is Earth Science: 71.1% in 2017-18, 38.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 499 schools with a published Global History rate in 2024-25, Forest Hills High School ranks 132nd (tied with 2 other schools at 80.1%). In Queens it is 34th of 87.
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 | 756 | 47.1% | 42% | +5.1 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 742 | 51.5% | 42.7% | +8.8 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 551 | 76.4% | 61.5% | +14.9 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 861 | 81.6% | 71.7% | +9.9 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 730 | 58.2% | 47.6% | +10.6 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 483 | 38.5% | 44.1% | −5.6 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 542 | 68.1% | 53.6% | +14.5 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 345 | 53% | 62.8% | −9.8 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 914 | 80.1% | 73.3% | +6.8 | 77.6% |
| US History | 606 | 73.6% | 69.8% | +3.8 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 496 | 96.8% | 92.1% | +4.7 | 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 Forest Hills 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 | 71.7%1,558 | 65.6%1,048 | 55.1%474 | 56%562 | 49.9%814 | 47.1%756 |
| Geometry | 79.7%681 | 80.6%712 | 45.5%682 | 46.7%688 | 63%649 | 51.5%742 |
| Algebra II | 93.8%592 | 81%557 | 60.2%615 | 51.9%536 | 70.1%485 | 76.4%551 |
| English (ELA) | 91.4%1,076 | 89%966 | 87.3%837 | 85.2%977 | 86.3%889 | 81.6%861 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 67.1%790 | 71.6%809 | 72.4%521 | 63.2%609 | 56.6%549 | 58.2%730 |
| Earth Science | 71.1%636 | 61.6%528 | 32.3%341 | 44%273 | 42.5%369 | 38.5%483 |
| Chemistry | 72.1%512 | 81.1%567 | 48.4%614 | 59.8%500 | 60.6%541 | 68.1%542 |
| Physics | 71.3%439 | 75.1%389 | 39.3%461 | 40.8%375 | 50.5%309 | 53%345 |
| Global History | 76.5%1,078 | 79.1%966 | 85%856 | 75.1%846 | 75.5%828 | 80.1%914 |
| US History | 84.8%974 | 78.7%868 | — | 76.7%627 | 77.6%642 | 73.6%606 |
| Languages Other Than English | 96.7%628 | 97.9%668 | 90.2%695 | 90.5%550 | 94.4%501 | 96.8%496 |
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.
- Forest Hills 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.
- Forest Hills 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.