Hillcrest High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 28Q505
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 95.4%
- Lowest: Physics
- 19%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 39%
In the 2024-25 school year, 78.4% of the 796 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Hillcrest High School 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 41.8% of 720 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.
4 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is English (ELA) (78.4% against 71.7%, +6.7 points) and the weakest is Physics (19% against 62.8%, −43.8 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (95.4%) and the lowest on Physics (19%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 74.9% in 2017-18 (825 test takers) to 78.4% in 2024-25 (796), up 3.5 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 Physics: 59.3% in 2017-18, 19% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Hillcrest High School ranks 173rd. In Queens it is 37th of 94.
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 | 652 | 39% | 42% | −3 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 482 | 27.2% | 42.7% | −15.5 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 236 | 52.5% | 61.5% | −9 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 796 | 78.4% | 71.7% | +6.7 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 720 | 41.8% | 47.6% | −5.8 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 364 | 37.9% | 44.1% | −6.2 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 146 | 46.6% | 53.6% | −7 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 21 | 19% | 62.8% | −43.8 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 653 | 76.7% | 73.3% | +3.4 | 77.6% |
| US History | 550 | 73.3% | 69.8% | +3.5 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 241 | 95.4% | 92.1% | +3.3 | 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.
Preparing for the Regents at Hillcrest High School?
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 | 64.9%772 | 62.9%1,066 | 39%223 | 39.5%413 | 36.2%472 | 39%652 |
| Geometry | 60.6%66 | 86.3%160 | 18.3%774 | 13.6%797 | 16.9%608 | 27.2%482 |
| Algebra II | 54%478 | 44.3%756 | 29%31 | 40.3%134 | 39.8%294 | 52.5%236 |
| English (ELA) | 74.9%825 | 84.1%910 | 62.5%16 | 72.3%553 | 74.6%677 | 78.4%796 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 67.6%884 | 69.5%810 | 56.3%348 | 40.7%442 | 38%529 | 41.8%720 |
| Earth Science | 72%647 | 73%608 | 35%449 | 28.8%379 | 46%417 | 37.9%364 |
| Chemistry | 73.9%157 | 82.9%129 | 33.5%248 | 49.6%232 | 51%100 | 46.6%146 |
| Physics | 59.3%27 | 100%15 | 16.7%72 | 17.7%79 | 37.8%37 | 19%21 |
| Global History | 70.5%1,039 | 74%912 | 66.3%563 | 61.5%602 | 72.6%617 | 76.7%653 |
| US History | 85%807 | 73.8%721 | — | 65.1%475 | 67.3%477 | 73.3%550 |
| Languages Other Than English | 91.2%512 | 87.9%463 | n/p1 | 87.6%283 | 95.6%249 | 95.4%241 |
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.
- Hillcrest High School 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.
- Hillcrest High School 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.