Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 27Q260
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 68.4%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 8.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 31.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 31.4% of the 137 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 23% of 126 test takers (city: 47.6%).
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 English (ELA) (−7.2 points against the city's 71.7%), the largest on Geometry (8.7% against 42.7%, 34 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (68.4%) and the lowest on Geometry (8.7%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 27.9% in 2017-18 (129 test takers) to 31.4% in 2024-25 (137), up 3.5 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 Algebra II: 10.6% in 2021-22, 50% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Frederick Douglass Academy VI High School ranks 330th (tied with 3 other schools at 31.4%). In Queens it is 73rd of 91.
Chemistry: 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. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on 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 Queens.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Queens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 137 | 31.4% | 42% | −10.6 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 46 | 8.7% | 42.7% | −34 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 22 | 50% | 61.5% | −11.5 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 107 | 64.5% | 71.7% | −7.2 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 126 | 23% | 47.6% | −24.6 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 44 | 15.9% | 44.1% | −28.2 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 1 | not published | 53.6% | — | 49.4% |
| Global History | 114 | 58.8% | 73.3% | −14.5 | 77.6% |
| US History | 69 | 55.1% | 69.8% | −14.7 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 38 | 68.4% | 92.1% | −23.7 | 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.
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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 | 27.9%129 | 25.2%135 | 14.8%61 | 40.8%125 | 22.3%103 | 31.4%137 |
| Geometry | n/p9 | 0%19 | 2.9%35 | 15.2%33 | 0%80 | 8.7%46 |
| Algebra II | n/p7 | n/p5 | 10.6%47 | 6.7%15 | 36.8%19 | 50%22 |
| English (ELA) | 37.3%110 | 63.6%88 | 42.5%40 | 55.9%68 | 64.8%91 | 64.5%107 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 33%112 | 29.5%129 | 23.1%52 | 19%79 | 28.9%90 | 23%126 |
| Earth Science | 20%30 | 9.1%22 | 3.4%29 | 10.6%47 | 16.2%68 | 15.9%44 |
| Chemistry | — | n/p3 | 0%15 | n/p6 | n/p12 | n/p1 |
| Global History | 20.7%140 | 31.5%130 | 32%25 | 36.1%72 | 47.3%93 | 58.8%114 |
| US History | 25.4%114 | 36.8%106 | — | 47.8%23 | 61%59 | 55.1%69 |
| Languages Other Than English | — | 93.3%30 | 69.7%33 | 60.6%33 | 87.5%16 | 68.4%38 |
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 VI HS 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 VI 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.