High School for Contemporary Arts: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
5 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Bronx · DBN 11X544
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 5
- Highest: Global History
- 45.8%
- Lowest: Algebra I
- 8.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 8.7%
In the 2024-25 school year, 8.7% of the 127 students who took the Algebra I Regents at High School for Contemporary Arts 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 41.5% of 106 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 5 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Global History (−27.5 points against the city's 73.3%), the largest on US History (14.5% against 69.8%, 55.3 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Global History (45.8%) and the lowest on Algebra I (8.7%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 44.6% in 2017-18 (231 test takers) to 8.7% in 2024-25 (127), down 35.9 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 US History: 45.9% in 2017-18, 14.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, High School for Contemporary Arts ranks 510th. In the Bronx it is 141st of 144.
Algebra II and Languages Other Than English: 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. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Geometry, Earth Science, Chemistry and 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 the Bronx.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Bronx |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 127 | 8.7% | 42% | −33.3 | 37.2% |
| Algebra II | 2 | not published | 61.5% | — | 54.3% |
| English (ELA) | 106 | 41.5% | 71.7% | −30.2 | 66.2% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 36 | 16.7% | 47.6% | −30.9 | 44.4% |
| Global History | 59 | 45.8% | 73.3% | −27.5 | 67.4% |
| US History | 55 | 14.5% | 69.8% | −55.3 | 64.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 8 | not published | 92.1% | — | 89.6% |
“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 | 44.6%231 | 42.5%167 | 4.9%81 | 16.8%95 | 15.8%101 | 8.7%127 |
| Geometry | 34.2%38 | 21.6%51 | 0%45 | 1.3%78 | 2%50 | — |
| Algebra II | 22.7%66 | n/p11 | 0%36 | 0%19 | — | n/p2 |
| English (ELA) | 64%186 | 78.5%158 | 42.1%38 | 45.5%123 | 36.4%88 | 41.5%106 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 41%195 | 42.1%140 | 20.3%79 | 18.4%76 | 9.3%43 | 16.7%36 |
| Earth Science | 66.2%71 | 53.1%49 | 13.5%52 | 15.7%70 | 0%27 | — |
| Chemistry | 19%21 | 42.1%19 | 0%48 | 0%22 | n/p2 | — |
| Physics | n/p12 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Global History | 41.2%199 | 55.6%153 | 40.4%52 | 29.7%101 | 38.8%85 | 45.8%59 |
| US History | 45.9%146 | 46.6%133 | — | 9.9%71 | 21.7%115 | 14.5%55 |
| Languages Other Than English | 90.5%21 | 97.1%34 | n/p1 | n/p4 | n/p12 | n/p8 |
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 Contemporary Arts 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 Contemporary Arts 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.