High School for Youth and Community Development at Erasmus: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
8 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 17K537
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 8
- Highest: US History
- 70.2%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 31%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 45%
In the 2024-25 school year, 42.4% of the 184 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at High School for Youth and Community Development at Erasmus 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 45% of 169 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 8 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (45% against 42%, +3 points) and the weakest is Algebra II (37.5% against 61.5%, −24 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on US History (70.2%) and the lowest on Geometry (31%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 38% in 2017-18 (187 test takers) to 42.4% in 2024-25 (184), up 4.4 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 II: 68.8% in 2018-19, 37.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, High School for Youth and Community Development at Erasmus ranks 266th (tied with 2 other schools at 42.4%). In Brooklyn it is 76th of 143.
Languages Other Than English: 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 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 Brooklyn.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Brooklyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 169 | 45% | 42% | +3 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 29 | 31% | 42.7% | −11.7 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 16 | 37.5% | 61.5% | −24 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 143 | 68.5% | 71.7% | −3.2 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 184 | 42.4% | 47.6% | −5.2 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 34 | 38.2% | 44.1% | −5.9 | 46% |
| Global History | 151 | 69.5% | 73.3% | −3.8 | 71% |
| US History | 121 | 70.2% | 69.8% | +0.4 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 5 | not published | 92.1% | — | 92.4% |
“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 | 31.8%176 | 54.7%203 | 36.2%105 | 40.4%114 | 38.5%130 | 45%169 |
| Geometry | 41.3%63 | 6.3%32 | 7.6%79 | 11.4%105 | 11.5%78 | 31%29 |
| Algebra II | n/p5 | 68.8%16 | 34.8%23 | 26.7%15 | 50%20 | 37.5%16 |
| English (ELA) | 55.8%190 | 57.3%220 | 63.3%98 | 52.5%160 | 41.3%126 | 68.5%143 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 38%187 | 49.2%183 | 29.4%102 | 25.2%115 | 37.8%82 | 42.4%184 |
| Earth Science | 13.5%37 | — | n/p1 | — | 18.6%70 | 38.2%34 |
| Chemistry | n/p2 | n/p9 | 11.8%17 | n/p1 | n/p2 | — |
| Physics | — | — | — | n/p14 | n/p2 | — |
| Global History | 46.2%171 | 50%142 | 65.3%95 | 52.8%127 | 37.3%118 | 69.5%151 |
| US History | 51.5%134 | 51.9%131 | — | 43.4%83 | 53.4%118 | 70.2%121 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p7 | n/p6 | n/p2 | n/p14 | n/p13 | n/p5 |
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 Youth & Community Development 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 Youth and Community Development at Erasmus 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.