High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
7 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 03M492
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 7
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 80%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 22.2%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 29.1%
In the 2024-25 school year, 42.4% of the 151 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice 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 29.1% of 148 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.
2 of the 7 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is English (ELA) (80% against 71.7%, +8.3 points) and the weakest is Algebra II (37.8% against 61.5%, −23.7 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (80%) and the lowest on Geometry (22.2%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 56.3% in 2017-18 (119 test takers) to 42.4% in 2024-25 (151), down 13.9 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: 63.6% in 2017-18, 29.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice ranks 266th (tied with 2 other schools at 42.4%). In Manhattan it is 65th of 120.
Earth Science, Chemistry 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 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 | 148 | 29.1% | 42% | −12.9 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 27 | 22.2% | 42.7% | −20.5 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 45 | 37.8% | 61.5% | −23.7 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 130 | 80% | 71.7% | +8.3 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 151 | 42.4% | 47.6% | −5.2 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 1 | not published | 44.1% | — | 47.2% |
| Chemistry | 3 | not published | 53.6% | — | 60.2% |
| Global History | 107 | 61.7% | 73.3% | −11.6 | 76.4% |
| US History | 135 | 70.4% | 69.8% | +0.6 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 14 | not published | 92.1% | — | 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 | 63.6%129 | 51.3%119 | 23.1%65 | 41%122 | 30.3%109 | 29.1%148 |
| Geometry | 50%18 | 27.1%48 | 22%50 | 41.2%17 | 9.1%22 | 22.2%27 |
| Algebra II | 39.5%167 | 30.4%79 | 11.8%51 | 18.2%88 | 24.7%97 | 37.8%45 |
| English (ELA) | 81.5%124 | 79.6%93 | n/p9 | 87.1%93 | 82.3%113 | 80%130 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 56.3%119 | 60%145 | 50%70 | 27.2%114 | 30.1%113 | 42.4%151 |
| Earth Science | 38.1%97 | 42.3%78 | 11.3%80 | 14.8%54 | n/p3 | n/p1 |
| Chemistry | 5.3%38 | 24.2%33 | — | n/p10 | n/p1 | n/p3 |
| Global History | 34.1%44 | 76.9%121 | 63.8%94 | 67.3%107 | 71.9%121 | 61.7%107 |
| US History | 59.8%229 | 15.2%66 | — | 54.9%82 | 58.9%73 | 70.4%135 |
| Languages Other Than English | 84.2%19 | 97.3%37 | n/p8 | — | 87.5%16 | n/p14 |
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 Law, Advocacy & Community Justice 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 Law, Advocacy and Community Justice 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.