John Dewey High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 21K540
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 97.6%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 36.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 46.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 66.9% of the 709 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at John Dewey High School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Algebra I Regents it was 46.4% of 660 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.
7 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra II (80.5% against 61.5%, +19 points) and the weakest is Earth Science (36.4% against 44.1%, −7.7 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (97.6%) and the lowest on Earth Science (36.4%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 66.8% in 2017-18 (840 test takers) to 66.9% in 2024-25 (709), up 0.1 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: 64% in 2017-18, 87.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, John Dewey High School ranks 294th. In Brooklyn it is 60th of 152.
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 | 660 | 46.4% | 42% | +4.4 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 459 | 41% | 42.7% | −1.7 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 215 | 80.5% | 61.5% | +19 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 709 | 66.9% | 71.7% | −4.8 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 482 | 58.3% | 47.6% | +10.7 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 220 | 36.4% | 44.1% | −7.7 | 46% |
| Chemistry | 221 | 58.4% | 53.6% | +4.8 | 54.7% |
| Physics | 85 | 55.3% | 62.8% | −7.5 | 66.5% |
| Global History | 518 | 87.1% | 73.3% | +13.8 | 71% |
| US History | 443 | 84.2% | 69.8% | +14.4 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 85 | 97.6% | 92.1% | +5.5 | 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 John Dewey 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 | 61.2%750 | 66.9%747 | 58.9%438 | 58.7%496 | 49.7%529 | 46.4%660 |
| Geometry | 47.4%546 | 47.9%411 | 24.3%378 | 42.6%430 | 45.7%416 | 41%459 |
| Algebra II | 80.1%256 | 79.1%206 | 41.1%224 | 43.2%236 | 85.4%185 | 80.5%215 |
| English (ELA) | 66.8%840 | 76.3%831 | 66.1%567 | 67.3%618 | 64.8%633 | 66.9%709 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 63.8%657 | 65.9%669 | 57.4%420 | 53.5%409 | 52.9%512 | 58.3%482 |
| Earth Science | 17.4%23 | n/p3 | 30.3%89 | 30.2%86 | 52.2%90 | 36.4%220 |
| Chemistry | 62.1%214 | 50%312 | 15.3%281 | 45.5%312 | 55.2%317 | 58.4%221 |
| Physics | 39%41 | n/p8 | 9.7%31 | n/p1 | 24.4%41 | 55.3%85 |
| Global History | 64%455 | 78.5%600 | 79.9%427 | 71.9%577 | 82.9%479 | 87.1%518 |
| US History | 74.6%800 | 63.9%538 | — | 71.4%248 | 81.8%444 | 84.2%443 |
| Languages Other Than English | 89.4%236 | 93.1%144 | 85.7%175 | 99%97 | 93.9%181 | 97.6%85 |
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 Dewey 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 Dewey 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.