High School for Health Careers and Sciences: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
8 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 06M468
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 8
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 92%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 6.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 24.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 24.8% of the 141 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at High School for Health Careers and Sciences scored 65 or higher, against 47.6% across the 504 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Algebra I Regents it was 24.3% of 136 test takers (city: 42%).
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 8 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Languages Other Than English (−0.1 points against the city's 92.1%), the largest on Chemistry (6.7% against 53.6%, 46.9 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (92%) and the lowest on Chemistry (6.7%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 53.5% in 2017-18 (172 test takers) to 24.8% in 2024-25 (141), down 28.7 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 62.7% to 47.6% (−15.1 points). The largest move on any other exam is Algebra I: 47.2% in 2017-18, 24.3% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, High School for Health Careers and Sciences ranks 459th. In Manhattan it is 110th of 120.
Algebra II and Earth Science: 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 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 Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 136 | 24.3% | 42% | −17.7 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 33 | 15.2% | 42.7% | −27.5 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 11 | not published | 61.5% | — | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 94 | 61.7% | 71.7% | −10 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 141 | 24.8% | 47.6% | −22.8 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 5 | not published | 44.1% | — | 47.2% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 6.7% | 53.6% | −46.9 | 60.2% |
| Global History | 109 | 59.6% | 73.3% | −13.7 | 76.4% |
| US History | 91 | 50.5% | 69.8% | −19.3 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 88 | 92% | 92.1% | −0.1 | 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 | 47.2%161 | 46.2%132 | 32.5%80 | 19.8%121 | 18.5%135 | 24.3%136 |
| Geometry | 9.1%66 | 21.6%37 | 5.6%71 | 25.9%27 | 7.4%54 | 15.2%33 |
| Algebra II | 40.7%27 | 11.8%17 | n/p3 | n/p8 | 15.6%32 | n/p11 |
| English (ELA) | 63.8%127 | 59.1%132 | 59.3%91 | 62%100 | 72.2%108 | 61.7%94 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 53.5%172 | 54.9%102 | 45%100 | 27.5%91 | 33.6%128 | 24.8%141 |
| Earth Science | 39.4%71 | 53.1%49 | 22.7%22 | 39.3%28 | 25.7%70 | n/p5 |
| Chemistry | n/p2 | n/p4 | 16.7%18 | n/p1 | — | 6.7%30 |
| Physics | n/p4 | n/p2 | — | — | — | — |
| Global History | 41.7%163 | 48.2%137 | 67.6%68 | 43.9%123 | 37.5%112 | 59.6%109 |
| US History | 63.5%104 | 39.7%131 | — | 50%64 | 49%96 | 50.5%91 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p14 | 86.8%167 | 83.8%37 | 96.2%52 | 88.1%42 | 92%88 |
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.
- HS for Health Careers and Sciences 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 Health Careers and Sciences 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.