Hillside Arts & Letters Academy: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 28Q325
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 95.2%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 15.6%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 42.7%
In the 2024-25 school year, 42.7% of the 131 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Hillside Arts & Letters Academy 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 72.5% of 131 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.
4 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Global History (77.3% against 73.3%, +4 points) and the weakest is Chemistry (15.6% against 53.6%, −38 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (95.2%) and the lowest on Chemistry (15.6%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 77.9% in 2017-18 (131 test takers) to 42.7% in 2024-25 (131), down 35.2 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 Algebra II: 80.6% in 2017-18, 42.9% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Hillside Arts & Letters Academy ranks 209th (tied with 2 other schools at 42.7%). In Queens it is 48th of 91.
Physics: 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.
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 | 131 | 42.7% | 42% | +0.7 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 63 | 39.7% | 42.7% | −3 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 35 | 42.9% | 61.5% | −18.6 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 131 | 72.5% | 71.7% | +0.8 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 123 | 42.3% | 47.6% | −5.3 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 47 | 34% | 44.1% | −10.1 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 45 | 15.6% | 53.6% | −38 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 1 | not published | 62.8% | — | 54.2% |
| Global History | 110 | 77.3% | 73.3% | +4 | 77.6% |
| US History | 123 | 52% | 69.8% | −17.8 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 42 | 95.2% | 92.1% | +3.1 | 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 | 77.9%131 | 66.1%109 | 58.2%55 | 60%75 | 48.8%84 | 42.7%131 |
| Geometry | 44.1%68 | 24%75 | 16%25 | 4.3%93 | 13.4%97 | 39.7%63 |
| Algebra II | 80.6%31 | 83.3%30 | n/p8 | 41.2%51 | 32.5%40 | 42.9%35 |
| English (ELA) | 78.7%225 | 73.1%160 | 69.2%91 | 70.2%178 | 65.6%122 | 72.5%131 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 62.4%125 | 67.9%140 | 86.4%59 | 77.9%68 | 72.1%68 | 42.3%123 |
| Earth Science | 56.8%88 | 47.6%63 | 23.7%59 | 58.1%62 | 36.6%93 | 34%47 |
| Chemistry | 4.3%23 | n/p11 | n/p12 | 25.6%43 | 20%15 | 15.6%45 |
| Physics | — | — | — | — | n/p1 | n/p1 |
| Global History | 68.3%142 | 75%128 | n/p1 | 78.2%87 | 74.7%99 | 77.3%110 |
| US History | 77.9%122 | 78.6%117 | — | 57.9%95 | 65.6%122 | 52%123 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p8 | 84.6%39 | 97%33 | 95.5%22 | n/p13 | 95.2%42 |
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.
- Hillside Arts & Letters Academy 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.
- Hillside Arts & Letters Academy 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.