Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 28Q350
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 100%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 7.5%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 45.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 60.2% of the 171 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences 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 45.4% of 163 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.
9 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is English (ELA) (89.7% against 71.7%, +18 points) and the weakest is Earth Science (7.5% against 44.1%, −36.6 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (100%) and the lowest on Earth Science (7.5%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 66.2% in 2017-18 (133 test takers) to 60.2% in 2024-25 (171), down 6 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: 44.6% in 2017-18, 7.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences ranks 97th (tied with 1 other school at 60.2%). In Queens it is 19th of 87.
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 | 163 | 45.4% | 42% | +3.4 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 98 | 43.9% | 42.7% | +1.2 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 75 | 68% | 61.5% | +6.5 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 145 | 89.7% | 71.7% | +18 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 171 | 60.2% | 47.6% | +12.6 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 40 | 7.5% | 44.1% | −36.6 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 81 | 54.3% | 53.6% | +0.7 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 35 | 45.7% | 62.8% | −17.1 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 129 | 77.5% | 73.3% | +4.2 | 77.6% |
| US History | 134 | 81.3% | 69.8% | +11.5 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 43 | 100% | 92.1% | +7.9 | 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 Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences?
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 | 67.9%131 | 69.4%147 | 62.3%69 | 58.9%95 | 47.4%116 | 45.4%163 |
| Geometry | 68.6%140 | 68.6%121 | 30.8%104 | 44.1%111 | 45.6%136 | 43.9%98 |
| Algebra II | 89.4%85 | 88.7%71 | 60.9%92 | 54.9%82 | 82.5%80 | 68%75 |
| English (ELA) | 89.5%133 | 90.7%129 | 92.5%120 | 85.6%125 | 86.8%136 | 89.7%145 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 66.2%133 | 70.2%124 | 58.6%87 | 53.8%104 | 49.6%135 | 60.2%171 |
| Earth Science | 44.6%56 | 35.6%45 | 13.3%60 | — | — | 7.5%40 |
| Chemistry | 61.2%98 | 75.9%79 | 24.8%105 | 35.2%88 | 42.9%84 | 54.3%81 |
| Physics | 75.9%54 | 55.6%54 | 11.1%63 | 15.4%39 | 26.1%46 | 45.7%35 |
| Global History | 67.7%161 | 79.6%157 | 91.8%110 | 76.6%124 | 81.8%137 | 77.5%129 |
| US History | 89.8%127 | 86%121 | — | 88%117 | 81.5%124 | 81.3%134 |
| Languages Other Than English | 83.9%62 | 94.9%59 | 93.1%29 | 98.3%60 | 95.8%48 | 100%43 |
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.
- Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences 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.
- Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences 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.