John Adams High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 27Q480
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 87.5%
- Lowest: Physics
- 42.9%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 57.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 80.9% of the 701 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at John Adams High School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Algebra II Regents it was 61.7% of 699 test takers (city: 61.5%).
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.
8 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (57.2% against 42%, +15.2 points) and the weakest is Physics (42.9% against 62.8%, −19.9 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (87.5%) and the lowest on Physics (42.9%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 75.4% in 2017-18 (781 test takers) to 80.9% in 2024-25 (701), up 5.5 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 Chemistry: 29.9% in 2017-18, 59.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, John Adams High School ranks 150th. In Queens it is 31st 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 | 670 | 57.2% | 42% | +15.2 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 288 | 55.9% | 42.7% | +13.2 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 699 | 61.7% | 61.5% | +0.2 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 701 | 80.9% | 71.7% | +9.2 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 668 | 47.6% | 47.6% | 0 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 435 | 52% | 44.1% | +7.9 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 137 | 59.1% | 53.6% | +5.5 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 35 | 42.9% | 62.8% | −19.9 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 608 | 80.1% | 73.3% | +6.8 | 77.6% |
| US History | 585 | 75.6% | 69.8% | +5.8 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 480 | 87.5% | 92.1% | −4.6 | 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 John Adams 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 | 64.2%850 | 68%781 | 61.4%386 | 58.3%585 | 61.6%578 | 57.2%670 |
| Geometry | 60.3%456 | 47.9%524 | 12%492 | 31.3%630 | 17.7%124 | 55.9%288 |
| Algebra II | 39.7%136 | 63.9%169 | 22.2%571 | 39.4%525 | 58.6%893 | 61.7%699 |
| English (ELA) | 75.4%781 | 84.7%806 | 73.4%613 | 78%993 | 81.1%688 | 80.9%701 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 61.7%929 | 56.8%811 | 66.9%462 | 52.6%515 | 62%482 | 47.6%668 |
| Earth Science | 33.1%251 | 16.8%405 | 15.6%179 | 41.5%376 | 65.8%401 | 52%435 |
| Chemistry | 29.9%251 | 24.5%355 | 13.4%397 | 36.6%243 | 46.4%138 | 59.1%137 |
| Physics | 42.1%19 | 31.4%35 | 16.7%114 | 26.2%103 | 33.3%42 | 42.9%35 |
| Global History | 69.1%767 | 72.3%740 | 74.6%551 | 82%617 | 80.4%542 | 80.1%608 |
| US History | 82.5%601 | 74%623 | — | 66.7%466 | 75.3%570 | 75.6%585 |
| Languages Other Than English | 83.5%218 | 92.8%318 | 63.9%385 | 69.6%365 | 72.2%345 | 87.5%480 |
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.
- John Adams 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.
- John Adams 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.