High School for Law and Public Service: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 06M467
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 92.4%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 11.1%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 31.6%
In the 2024-25 school year, 31.6% of the 228 students who took the Algebra I Regents at High School for Law and Public Service 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 32.8% of 186 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.
1 of the 9 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Languages Other Than English (92.4% against 92.1%, +0.3 points) and the weakest is Global History (29.7% against 73.3%, −43.6 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (92.4%) and the lowest on Geometry (11.1%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 31.7% in 2017-18 (208 test takers) to 31.6% in 2024-25 (228), down 0.1 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 Algebra II: 24.3% in 2017-18, 47.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, High School for Law and Public Service ranks 329th. In Manhattan it is 77th of 122.
Chemistry: 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 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 | 228 | 31.6% | 42% | −10.4 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 36 | 11.1% | 42.7% | −31.6 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 17 | 47.1% | 61.5% | −14.4 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 186 | 32.8% | 71.7% | −38.9 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 174 | 44.8% | 47.6% | −2.8 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 57 | 26.3% | 44.1% | −17.8 | 47.2% |
| Chemistry | 13 | not published | 53.6% | — | 60.2% |
| Global History | 148 | 29.7% | 73.3% | −43.6 | 76.4% |
| US History | 124 | 40.3% | 69.8% | −29.5 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 66 | 92.4% | 92.1% | +0.3 | 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 | 31.7%208 | 31.4%175 | 25%60 | 33.3%126 | 25.2%151 | 31.6%228 |
| Geometry | 15%127 | 16.4%61 | 3.3%61 | 24%25 | 6.1%82 | 11.1%36 |
| Algebra II | 24.3%37 | 28.1%57 | 3.1%32 | 2.8%36 | n/p6 | 47.1%17 |
| English (ELA) | 55.6%198 | 63.8%149 | 58.3%103 | 46.8%124 | 54.2%144 | 32.8%186 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 34.2%187 | 40.1%187 | 54%63 | 61.3%106 | 46.3%134 | 44.8%174 |
| Earth Science | 32.8%64 | — | 16%50 | 60%45 | 60.3%73 | 26.3%57 |
| Chemistry | 26.1%23 | 2.9%34 | — | — | n/p7 | n/p13 |
| Physics | 26.9%26 | 2.7%37 | — | — | — | — |
| Global History | 37.2%207 | 34.7%173 | 41.5%94 | 60.5%86 | 58.4%113 | 29.7%148 |
| US History | 62.7%126 | 42.6%141 | — | 42.9%70 | 62.3%77 | 40.3%124 |
| Languages Other Than English | 88.6%70 | 90%20 | 92.9%28 | 93.8%81 | 80.7%88 | 92.4%66 |
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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- High School for Law and Public Service 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.
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- High School for Law and Public Service 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.