High School of World Cultures: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
8 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Bronx · DBN 12X550
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 8
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 97.2%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 26.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 56.9%
In the 2024-25 school year, 56.9% of the 188 students who took the Algebra I Regents at High School of World Cultures 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 81.8% of 137 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.
5 of the 8 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (56.9% against 42%, +14.9 points) and the weakest is Algebra II (28.6% against 61.5%, −32.9 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (97.2%) and the lowest on Earth Science (26.4%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 54.4% in 2017-18 (204 test takers) to 56.9% in 2024-25 (188), up 2.5 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 Global History: 38.7% in 2017-18, 73.8% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, High School of World Cultures ranks 115th (tied with 1 other school at 56.9%). In the Bronx it is 26th of 144.
Geometry: 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 the Bronx.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Bronx |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 188 | 56.9% | 42% | +14.9 | 37.2% |
| Geometry | 1 | not published | 42.7% | — | 34.3% |
| Algebra II | 21 | 28.6% | 61.5% | −32.9 | 54.3% |
| English (ELA) | 137 | 81.8% | 71.7% | +10.1 | 66.2% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 118 | 36.4% | 47.6% | −11.2 | 44.4% |
| Earth Science | 91 | 26.4% | 44.1% | −17.7 | 40.5% |
| Global History | 122 | 73.8% | 73.3% | +0.5 | 67.4% |
| US History | 90 | 76.7% | 69.8% | +6.9 | 64.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 71 | 97.2% | 92.1% | +5.1 | 89.6% |
“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 | 54.4%204 | 57.8%185 | 79.4%102 | 57.5%106 | 23.6%144 | 56.9%188 |
| Geometry | n/p10 | 17.2%64 | n/p9 | n/p7 | 8.8%80 | n/p1 |
| Algebra II | 24.2%99 | 4.8%42 | 19.2%26 | 11.1%45 | n/p4 | 28.6%21 |
| English (ELA) | 52.6%173 | 72.2%151 | 70%20 | 50.6%89 | 66.2%139 | 81.8%137 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 45.2%62 | 34.1%123 | 43.4%53 | 62.5%96 | 64.2%106 | 36.4%118 |
| Earth Science | 36.8%193 | 49.1%159 | 33%94 | 60.4%101 | 53.1%81 | 26.4%91 |
| Chemistry | — | — | — | n/p7 | — | — |
| Physics | 20.8%24 | 24%25 | — | — | — | — |
| Global History | 38.7%124 | 72.2%54 | 54.5%33 | 57.7%97 | 77.9%113 | 73.8%122 |
| US History | 72.3%130 | 31.6%114 | — | 83.3%18 | 72.5%80 | 76.7%90 |
| Languages Other Than English | 95.2%104 | 93.1%101 | 97.1%34 | 95%20 | 76.2%21 | 97.2%71 |
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 of World Cultures 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 of World Cultures 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.