John Bowne High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 25Q425
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 96.6%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 35.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 35.5%
In the 2024-25 school year, 35.5% of the 799 students who took the Algebra I Regents at John Bowne High School 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 63.7% of 730 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.
5 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Physics (85.2% against 62.8%, +22.4 points) and the weakest is Algebra II (39.5% against 61.5%, −22 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (96.6%) and the lowest on Geometry (35.4%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 65.1% in 2017-18 (1,778 test takers) to 35.5% in 2024-25 (799), down 29.6 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: 70.1% in 2017-18, 39.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, John Bowne High School ranks 292nd (tied with 1 other school at 35.5%). In Queens it is 67th of 91.
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 | 799 | 35.5% | 42% | −6.5 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 410 | 35.4% | 42.7% | −7.3 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 560 | 39.5% | 61.5% | −22 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 730 | 63.7% | 71.7% | −8 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 665 | 63.5% | 47.6% | +15.9 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 413 | 38.7% | 44.1% | −5.4 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 135 | 58.5% | 53.6% | +4.9 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 27 | 85.2% | 62.8% | +22.4 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 623 | 68.1% | 73.3% | −5.2 | 77.6% |
| US History | 606 | 73.3% | 69.8% | +3.5 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 232 | 96.6% | 92.1% | +4.5 | 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 Bowne 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 | 65.1%1,778 | 60.5%1,285 | 53.3%520 | 50.6%721 | 45.3%622 | 35.5%799 |
| Geometry | 44.4%611 | 49.6%766 | 21.5%577 | 27.2%276 | 48.1%443 | 35.4%410 |
| Algebra II | 70.1%489 | 72%415 | 28.3%459 | 31.5%889 | 33%654 | 39.5%560 |
| English (ELA) | 78.1%1,074 | 83.4%976 | 77.5%828 | 69.6%1,218 | 65.9%926 | 63.7%730 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 67.9%974 | 61.3%847 | 71.9%484 | 64.3%597 | 64.9%467 | 63.5%665 |
| Earth Science | 62.6%551 | 54.8%500 | 39.6%268 | 60.4%467 | 55.9%379 | 38.7%413 |
| Chemistry | 63.7%303 | 70.8%349 | 35.7%252 | 72.6%201 | 59.7%206 | 58.5%135 |
| Physics | 69.5%95 | 86.4%44 | 76.5%34 | 65%20 | 85%20 | 85.2%27 |
| Global History | 63.8%1,085 | 64.4%1,040 | 68.5%650 | 67.4%653 | 74.6%727 | 68.1%623 |
| US History | 75%809 | 71.6%841 | — | 69.4%555 | 75.5%568 | 73.3%606 |
| Languages Other Than English | 93.6%374 | 91.4%451 | 80.3%249 | 94%218 | 94.6%204 | 96.6%232 |
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 Bowne 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 Bowne 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.