Frederick Douglass Academy: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 05M499
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 81%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 12.5%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 26.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 26.4% of the 201 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Frederick Douglass Academy scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 52.5% of 158 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.
All 9 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Geometry (−3.5 points against the city's 42.7%), the largest on Global History (33.1% against 73.3%, 40.2 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (81%) and the lowest on Earth Science (12.5%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 56.6% in 2017-18 (311 test takers) to 26.4% in 2024-25 (201), down 30.2 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 Living Environment / Biology: 70.8% in 2017-18, 23.9% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Frederick Douglass Academy ranks 380th. In Manhattan it is 90th of 122.
Chemistry and Physics: 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.
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 | 201 | 26.4% | 42% | −15.6 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 51 | 39.2% | 42.7% | −3.5 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 17 | 47.1% | 61.5% | −14.4 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 158 | 52.5% | 71.7% | −19.2 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 117 | 23.9% | 47.6% | −23.7 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 24 | 12.5% | 44.1% | −31.6 | 47.2% |
| Chemistry | 8 | not published | 53.6% | — | 60.2% |
| Physics | 6 | not published | 62.8% | — | 67% |
| Global History | 157 | 33.1% | 73.3% | −40.2 | 76.4% |
| US History | 73 | 53.4% | 69.8% | −16.4 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 21 | 81% | 92.1% | −11.1 | 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 | 56.6%311 | 52.6%291 | 21.8%101 | 27.3%161 | 33.1%124 | 26.4%201 |
| Geometry | 67.6%222 | 62.2%196 | 11.1%135 | 19.6%97 | 46.4%28 | 39.2%51 |
| Algebra II | 60%110 | 70.7%99 | 22%59 | 45%40 | 40%35 | 47.1%17 |
| English (ELA) | 85.4%328 | 86.1%323 | 24%50 | 63.6%154 | 59.3%150 | 52.5%158 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 70.8%240 | 67.3%196 | 40.7%108 | 26.1%119 | 9.1%44 | 23.9%117 |
| Earth Science | 45.3%86 | 52.6%57 | 26.4%72 | 39.4%71 | 46.7%15 | 12.5%24 |
| Chemistry | 88%50 | 81.3%64 | 2.2%46 | n/p12 | 66.7%15 | n/p8 |
| Physics | 72.1%43 | n/p11 | n/p14 | n/p9 | n/p7 | n/p6 |
| Global History | 66.3%401 | 50.2%227 | 54.3%164 | 37.3%153 | 47.4%135 | 33.1%157 |
| US History | 78.4%236 | 72%225 | — | 54.7%106 | 62.8%86 | 53.4%73 |
| Languages Other Than English | 97.8%89 | 87%77 | 70.2%47 | 81.8%33 | 95.6%45 | 81%21 |
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.
- Frederick Douglass Academy 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.
- Frederick Douglass Academy 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.