High School for Violin and Dance: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
5 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Bronx · DBN 09X543
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 5
- Highest: Global History
- 61.4%
- Lowest: Algebra I
- 20%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 20%
In the 2024-25 school year, 41.8% of the 67 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at High School for Violin and Dance 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 36.8% of 57 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.
All 5 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Living Environment / Biology (−10.8 points against the city's 47.6%), the largest on US History (39.3% against 69.8%, 30.5 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Global History (61.4%) and the lowest on Algebra I (20%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 51% in 2017-18 (51 test takers) to 41.8% in 2024-25 (67), down 9.2 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: 36.2% in 2017-18, 61.4% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, High School for Violin and Dance ranks 504th. In the Bronx it is 139th of 151.
Geometry and Algebra II: 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 Earth Science, Chemistry, Physics and Languages Other Than English.
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 | 50 | 20% | 42% | −22 | 37.2% |
| Geometry | 7 | not published | 42.7% | — | 34.3% |
| Algebra II | 1 | not published | 61.5% | — | 54.3% |
| English (ELA) | 67 | 41.8% | 71.7% | −29.9 | 66.2% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 57 | 36.8% | 47.6% | −10.8 | 44.4% |
| Global History | 44 | 61.4% | 73.3% | −11.9 | 67.4% |
| US History | 28 | 39.3% | 69.8% | −30.5 | 64.5% |
“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 | 31.5%92 | 29.3%133 | 25.6%39 | 47.8%46 | 40.4%47 | 20%50 |
| Geometry | — | n/p1 | n/p3 | 0%19 | n/p1 | n/p7 |
| Algebra II | n/p2 | — | n/p8 | n/p7 | n/p7 | n/p1 |
| English (ELA) | 51%51 | 74.3%74 | 48.4%31 | 56.5%46 | 53.5%43 | 41.8%67 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 47.7%86 | 42%88 | 20%35 | 55.6%27 | 24.2%33 | 36.8%57 |
| Earth Science | — | n/p1 | — | — | n/p9 | — |
| Chemistry | n/p2 | — | n/p2 | n/p12 | n/p1 | — |
| Global History | 36.2%58 | 44.8%105 | 44.4%27 | 46.7%30 | 73.9%23 | 61.4%44 |
| US History | 43.8%112 | 43.4%53 | — | 60.9%23 | 65%20 | 39.3%28 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p1 | 100%16 | — | n/p12 | n/p9 | — |
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 Violin and Dance 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 Violin and Dance 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.