James Madison High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 22K425
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 94%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 50.9%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 57.7%
In the 2024-25 school year, 80.4% of the 1,194 students who took the Global History Regents at James Madison High School scored 65 or higher, against 73.3% across the 499 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 81.4% of 1,090 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.
9 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Earth Science (61.5% against 44.1%, +17.4 points) and the weakest is Physics (58.3% against 62.8%, −4.5 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (94%) and the lowest on Chemistry (50.9%).
On Global History, the pass rate went from 74.8% in 2017-18 (1,062 test takers) to 80.4% in 2024-25 (1,194), up 5.6 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 64.1% to 73.3% (+9.2 points). The largest move on any other exam is Chemistry: 73.1% in 2017-18, 50.9% in 2024-25.
Among the 499 schools with a published Global History rate in 2024-25, James Madison High School ranks 130th. In Brooklyn it is 28th of 143.
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 Brooklyn.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Brooklyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 1,020 | 57.7% | 42% | +15.7 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 855 | 54.3% | 42.7% | +11.6 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 620 | 76.6% | 61.5% | +15.1 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 1,090 | 81.4% | 71.7% | +9.7 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 980 | 52.8% | 47.6% | +5.2 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 646 | 61.5% | 44.1% | +17.4 | 46% |
| Chemistry | 532 | 50.9% | 53.6% | −2.7 | 54.7% |
| Physics | 218 | 58.3% | 62.8% | −4.5 | 66.5% |
| Global History | 1,194 | 80.4% | 73.3% | +7.1 | 71% |
| US History | 935 | 80.5% | 69.8% | +10.7 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 585 | 94% | 92.1% | +1.9 | 92.4% |
“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 James Madison 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 | 66.1%1,186 | 70.6%1,488 | 57.7%551 | 59.2%781 | 56.9%858 | 57.7%1,020 |
| Geometry | 59.6%862 | 75.7%701 | 44.7%759 | 47.5%1,203 | 55.7%827 | 54.3%855 |
| Algebra II | 78.5%433 | 84.8%467 | 40.9%628 | 33.3%87 | 75.1%582 | 76.6%620 |
| English (ELA) | 83%1,009 | 84.8%975 | 68.6%325 | 79.3%921 | 85.8%956 | 81.4%1,090 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 67.9%1,055 | 65.8%1,090 | 76.5%409 | 63.7%647 | 61.9%809 | 52.8%980 |
| Earth Science | 78.5%233 | 64.5%251 | 50.5%382 | 44.6%343 | 68.3%625 | 61.5%646 |
| Chemistry | 73.1%435 | 67.5%541 | 38.1%630 | 43.5%565 | 58%457 | 50.9%532 |
| Physics | 76.6%145 | 72.5%171 | 32.3%291 | 38.1%265 | 62.4%226 | 58.3%218 |
| Global History | 74.8%1,062 | 75.5%1,138 | 79.7%798 | 77.2%834 | 84.3%964 | 80.4%1,194 |
| US History | 86%892 | 82.3%859 | — | 80.4%698 | 84.8%739 | 80.5%935 |
| Languages Other Than English | 83.3%438 | 97.1%348 | 73%566 | 79.8%242 | 89.4%652 | 94%585 |
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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- James Madison 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.
- James Madison 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.