Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Staten Island · DBN 31R064
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 100%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 29%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 55.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 94.2% of the 156 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 71.7% of 152 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.
8 of the 9 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra II (92% against 61.5%, +30.5 points) and the weakest is Chemistry (29% against 53.6%, −24.6 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (100%) and the lowest on Chemistry (29%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 92.3% in 2017-18 (91 test takers) to 94.2% in 2024-25 (156), up 1.9 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 Chemistry: 64.7% in 2017-18, 29% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School ranks 31st (tied with 1 other school at 94.2%). In Staten Island it is 3rd of 15.
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. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Earth Science.
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 Staten Island.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Staten Island |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 139 | 55.4% | 42% | +13.4 | 41.9% |
| Geometry | 85 | 49.4% | 42.7% | +6.7 | 43% |
| Algebra II | 25 | 92% | 61.5% | +30.5 | 65.6% |
| English (ELA) | 156 | 94.2% | 71.7% | +22.5 | 82.8% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 152 | 71.7% | 47.6% | +24.1 | 50.2% |
| Chemistry | 31 | 29% | 53.6% | −24.6 | 57.6% |
| Physics | 6 | not published | 62.8% | — | 63.3% |
| Global History | 137 | 85.4% | 73.3% | +12.1 | 75.9% |
| US History | 113 | 80.5% | 69.8% | +10.7 | 73.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 20 | 100% | 92.1% | +7.9 | 93.7% |
“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 | 66.2%130 | 70.5%122 | 78.9%90 | 53.4%131 | 60.5%129 | 55.4%139 |
| Geometry | 44.8%87 | 42.7%117 | 40%45 | 23.8%63 | 59%61 | 49.4%85 |
| Algebra II | 75%32 | 87.1%31 | 86.2%29 | 54.5%22 | 70.4%27 | 92%25 |
| English (ELA) | 92.3%91 | 93%100 | n/p9 | 95.6%114 | 99.2%128 | 94.2%156 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 77.9%122 | 68.3%126 | 84.8%92 | 75.8%120 | 69.7%155 | 71.7%152 |
| Earth Science | 36.4%55 | 12.3%65 | n/p2 | — | — | — |
| Chemistry | 64.7%34 | 31.3%48 | 70.8%24 | 35%20 | 46.2%39 | 29%31 |
| Physics | n/p8 | n/p7 | n/p2 | n/p13 | n/p5 | n/p6 |
| Global History | 72.6%117 | 73.3%131 | 89.1%101 | 77.6%134 | 84.3%134 | 85.4%137 |
| US History | 80.7%83 | 78.7%94 | — | 80.5%77 | 79.6%103 | 80.5%113 |
| Languages Other Than English | 100%22 | 96%25 | 100%23 | n/p10 | 96.6%29 | 100%20 |
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.
- Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning 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.
- Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning 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.