High School for Arts and Business: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 24Q550
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Global History
- 98.8%
- Lowest: Physics
- 3.6%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 83.1%
In the 2024-25 school year, 63% of the 235 students who took the Geometry Regents at High School for Arts and Business scored 65 or higher, against 42.7% across the 389 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Earth Science Regents it was 40.5% of 222 test takers (city: 44.1%).
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 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (83.1% against 42%, +41.1 points) and the weakest is Physics (3.6% against 62.8%, −59.2 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Global History (98.8%) and the lowest on Physics (3.6%).
On Geometry, the pass rate went from 56.1% in 2017-18 (228 test takers) to 63% in 2024-25 (235), up 6.9 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 56.7% to 42.7% (−14 points). The largest move on any other exam is Physics: 70.7% in 2017-18, 3.6% in 2024-25.
Among the 389 schools with a published Geometry rate in 2024-25, High School for Arts and Business ranks 52nd. In Queens it is 10th of 79.
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 | 178 | 83.1% | 42% | +41.1 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 235 | 63% | 42.7% | +20.3 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 174 | 93.7% | 61.5% | +32.2 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 216 | 79.2% | 71.7% | +7.5 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 218 | 54.1% | 47.6% | +6.5 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 222 | 40.5% | 44.1% | −3.6 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 192 | 24.5% | 53.6% | −29.1 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 28 | 3.6% | 62.8% | −59.2 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 161 | 98.8% | 73.3% | +25.5 | 77.6% |
| US History | 146 | 98.6% | 69.8% | +28.8 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 166 | 94% | 92.1% | +1.9 | 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 High School for Arts and Business?
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 | 64.5%242 | 77.3%233 | 52.3%153 | 66.7%147 | 60.7%150 | 83.1%178 |
| Geometry | 56.1%228 | 59.6%272 | 31.2%154 | 27.3%216 | 64.4%250 | 63%235 |
| Algebra II | 60.9%276 | 65.3%222 | 50.3%185 | 41.6%202 | 69.9%183 | 93.7%174 |
| English (ELA) | 79.9%268 | 85.6%271 | 85.9%177 | 78.5%228 | 82.5%234 | 79.2%216 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 72%214 | 74.3%214 | 54.5%145 | 57.8%173 | 44.6%139 | 54.1%218 |
| Earth Science | 44.6%121 | 57.1%126 | 61.1%157 | 52.7%188 | 48.3%203 | 40.5%222 |
| Chemistry | 44.5%220 | 44.2%217 | 22.2%180 | 16.2%167 | 22.7%185 | 24.5%192 |
| Physics | 70.7%58 | 64.6%48 | 16.9%89 | 11.2%116 | 6.1%66 | 3.6%28 |
| Global History | 91.9%197 | 100%199 | 92.9%183 | 96.8%189 | 96.6%174 | 98.8%161 |
| US History | 98.4%189 | 96.3%164 | — | 98%147 | 95.2%168 | 98.6%146 |
| Languages Other Than English | 91.9%198 | 91.2%159 | 86.5%185 | 93.1%175 | 94.8%155 | 94%166 |
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.
- High School for Arts and Business 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.
- High School for Arts and Business 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.