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Independence High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
6 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 02M544
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 6
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 83.9%
- Lowest: Algebra I
- 13.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 13.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 44% of the 84 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Independence High School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Global History Regents it was 54.5% of 77 test takers (city: 73.3%).
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.
All 6 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Living Environment / Biology (−6.2 points against the city's 47.6%), the largest on US History (24.3% against 69.8%, 45.5 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (83.9%) and the lowest on Algebra I (13.4%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 36.3% in 2017-18 (113 test takers) to 44% in 2024-25 (84), up 7.7 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 Global History: 14.1% in 2017-18, 54.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Independence High School ranks 495th (tied with 1 other school at 44%). In Manhattan it is 132nd of 137.
Earth Science: 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 Geometry, Algebra II, Chemistry and Physics.
Independence High School is a transfer school: the DOE files it under its "High School Transfer" report, for schools that enroll students who are over-age or behind in credits. Its pass rates describe that population and are not a like-for-like comparison with a four-year high school.
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 Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 67 | 13.4% | 42% | −28.6 | 43.8% |
| English (ELA) | 84 | 44% | 71.7% | −27.7 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 58 | 41.4% | 47.6% | −6.2 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 2 | not published | 44.1% | — | 47.2% |
| Global History | 77 | 54.5% | 73.3% | −18.8 | 76.4% |
| US History | 74 | 24.3% | 69.8% | −45.5 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 31 | 83.9% | 92.1% | −8.2 | 93.9% |
“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 | 12.9%70 | 13.2%76 | n/p3 | 26.3%38 | 18.4%76 | 13.4%67 |
| Geometry | n/p3 | n/p7 | — | n/p3 | n/p1 | — |
| Algebra II | — | — | — | n/p2 | — | — |
| English (ELA) | 36.3%113 | 63%81 | 39.1%23 | 51.7%60 | 62.6%99 | 44%84 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 18.9%74 | 26.9%67 | n/p7 | 44%25 | 36.4%44 | 41.4%58 |
| Earth Science | — | n/p1 | — | n/p2 | n/p1 | n/p2 |
| Chemistry | — | — | — | n/p2 | — | — |
| Global History | 14.1%128 | 31.9%94 | n/p5 | 36.1%36 | 45.5%66 | 54.5%77 |
| US History | 27.8%115 | 21.3%80 | — | 23.7%38 | 46%63 | 24.3%74 |
| Languages Other Than English | — | — | — | n/p6 | 100%22 | 83.9%31 |
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.
- Independence 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.
- Independence 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.