High School for Media and Communications: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 06M463
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 91.2%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 20%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 26.8%
In the 2024-25 school year, 33.8% of the 157 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at High School for Media and Communications scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 33.1% of 157 test takers (city: 47.6%).
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 Algebra II (65.4% against 61.5%, +3.9 points) and the weakest is English (ELA) (33.8% against 71.7%, −37.9 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (91.2%) and the lowest on Geometry (20%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 43.9% in 2017-18 (148 test takers) to 33.8% in 2024-25 (157), down 10.1 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 74.3% to 71.7% (−2.6 points). The largest move on any other exam is Global History: 23.6% in 2017-18, 46.7% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, High School for Media and Communications ranks 533rd. In Manhattan it is 135th of 137.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on 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 Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 112 | 26.8% | 42% | −15.2 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 35 | 20% | 42.7% | −22.7 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 26 | 65.4% | 61.5% | +3.9 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 157 | 33.8% | 71.7% | −37.9 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 157 | 33.1% | 47.6% | −14.5 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 89 | 24.7% | 44.1% | −19.4 | 47.2% |
| Global History | 107 | 46.7% | 73.3% | −26.6 | 76.4% |
| US History | 129 | 41.1% | 69.8% | −28.7 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 57 | 91.2% | 92.1% | −0.9 | 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.
Preparing for the Regents at High School for Media and Communications?
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 | 27.6%243 | 53.7%229 | 46.2%93 | 46%202 | 51.9%135 | 26.8%112 |
| Geometry | 4%50 | 10.3%29 | n/p1 | 30%40 | 56.8%37 | 20%35 |
| Algebra II | n/p7 | — | n/p5 | 51.6%62 | 89.7%29 | 65.4%26 |
| English (ELA) | 43.9%148 | 39%123 | 54.5%77 | 57.6%184 | 54.1%122 | 33.8%157 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 36.3%171 | 34.7%170 | 50%78 | 38.1%105 | 38.7%119 | 33.1%157 |
| Earth Science | 34.8%89 | 17%53 | 29.4%17 | 47.6%63 | 43.2%74 | 24.7%89 |
| Chemistry | 23.5%17 | 5.6%18 | — | — | — | — |
| Physics | n/p4 | n/p1 | — | — | n/p8 | — |
| Global History | 23.6%123 | 37.2%137 | 57.4%47 | 53.9%102 | 53.6%97 | 46.7%107 |
| US History | 53.6%181 | 35.4%82 | — | 34.8%89 | 47.3%93 | 41.1%129 |
| Languages Other Than English | 100%15 | 97.4%78 | 95.8%71 | 98.1%52 | 89.6%48 | 91.2%57 |
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 Media and Communications 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 Media and Communications 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.