High School of Applied Communication: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 24Q267
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 93.7%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 21.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 45.6%
In the 2024-25 school year, 42.5% of the 146 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at High School of Applied Communication 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 45.6% of 136 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.
4 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Earth Science (56.5% against 44.1%, +12.4 points) and the weakest is Chemistry (21.4% against 53.6%, −32.2 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (93.7%) and the lowest on Chemistry (21.4%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 32.5% in 2017-18 (40 test takers) to 42.5% in 2024-25 (146), up 10 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 Earth Science: 32% in 2017-18, 56.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, High School of Applied Communication ranks 264th (tied with 1 other school at 42.5%). In Queens it is 51st of 87.
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 Queens.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Queens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 136 | 45.6% | 42% | +3.6 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 105 | 23.8% | 42.7% | −18.9 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 46 | 39.1% | 61.5% | −22.4 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 109 | 70.6% | 71.7% | −1.1 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 146 | 42.5% | 47.6% | −5.1 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 62 | 56.5% | 44.1% | +12.4 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 28 | 21.4% | 53.6% | −32.2 | 49.4% |
| Global History | 112 | 75% | 73.3% | +1.7 | 77.6% |
| US History | 62 | 64.5% | 69.8% | −5.3 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 63 | 93.7% | 92.1% | +1.6 | 91.9% |
“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 | 51.7%145 | 61.3%168 | 47.6%84 | 54.2%120 | 54.5%145 | 45.6%136 |
| Geometry | 12.2%49 | 41.1%56 | 20.7%92 | 13.7%139 | 27.7%101 | 23.8%105 |
| Algebra II | 44.8%134 | 38.2%89 | 3.6%84 | 8%50 | 33.3%54 | 39.1%46 |
| English (ELA) | 75.5%163 | 83.3%156 | 67%94 | 59%105 | 51.9%77 | 70.6%109 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 32.5%40 | 63.3%196 | 37.6%93 | 40.8%76 | 28.7%94 | 42.5%146 |
| Earth Science | 32%181 | — | — | 41.3%75 | — | 56.5%62 |
| Chemistry | 33.3%57 | 20%45 | 5.2%77 | 0%26 | 15.9%82 | 21.4%28 |
| Physics | — | — | 0%47 | — | — | — |
| Global History | 68.8%141 | 69.2%133 | 63%92 | 56.6%99 | 60.9%92 | 75%112 |
| US History | 88%92 | 84.7%85 | — | 69.6%79 | 74.5%98 | 64.5%62 |
| Languages Other Than English | 89.7%29 | 100%48 | 80.4%51 | 88.5%61 | 87.5%48 | 93.7%63 |
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 score calculator — turn a raw score into the official scale score, for every exam and sitting since 2014.
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- High School of Applied Communication 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.