John Jay School for Law: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
8 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 15K462
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 8
- Highest: US History
- 71.7%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 8.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 44.7%
In the 2024-25 school year, 57.8% of the 173 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at John Jay School for Law 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 44.7% of 152 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.
3 of the 8 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Living Environment / Biology (50.8% against 47.6%, +3.2 points) and the weakest is Chemistry (8.7% against 53.6%, −44.9 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on US History (71.7%) and the lowest on Chemistry (8.7%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 71.4% in 2017-18 (77 test takers) to 57.8% in 2024-25 (173), down 13.6 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 74.3% to 71.7% (−2.6 points).
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, John Jay School for Law ranks 383rd (tied with 1 other school at 57.8%). In Brooklyn it is 83rd of 152.
Languages Other Than English: fewer than 15 students sat this exam here in 2024-25, so the DOE published no pass rate. The number of test takers is still shown in the table. The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Earth Science and Physics.
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 | 152 | 44.7% | 42% | +2.7 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 140 | 22.1% | 42.7% | −20.6 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 27 | 25.9% | 61.5% | −35.6 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 173 | 57.8% | 71.7% | −13.9 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 118 | 50.8% | 47.6% | +3.2 | 46.9% |
| Chemistry | 69 | 8.7% | 53.6% | −44.9 | 54.7% |
| Global History | 117 | 54.7% | 73.3% | −18.6 | 71% |
| US History | 99 | 71.7% | 69.8% | +1.9 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 7 | not published | 92.1% | — | 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.
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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 | 38.6%202 | 38.1%160 | 33.8%80 | 35.5%124 | 31%126 | 44.7%152 |
| Geometry | 22.6%133 | 36.1%133 | 10%50 | 17.9%67 | 12.9%116 | 22.1%140 |
| Algebra II | 23.1%52 | 47.6%63 | 9.1%33 | 60%25 | 29.4%17 | 25.9%27 |
| English (ELA) | 71.4%77 | 89.1%101 | 35.3%17 | 80.3%152 | 86.5%96 | 57.8%173 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 47.5%162 | 54%139 | 50%48 | 55.5%110 | 60.9%115 | 50.8%118 |
| Earth Science | 40.7%91 | 34.4%93 | n/p1 | — | — | — |
| Chemistry | 6.5%31 | — | 0%18 | 3.2%62 | 8.3%72 | 8.7%69 |
| Physics | — | 5.6%18 | — | — | — | — |
| Global History | 49.7%151 | 62.5%152 | 67.5%114 | 64.7%102 | 70%120 | 54.7%117 |
| US History | 68.9%90 | 81%100 | — | 72.7%88 | 62.7%67 | 71.7%99 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p3 | 84.6%52 | — | n/p5 | 93.8%16 | n/p7 |
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 Jay School for Law 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 Jay School for Law 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.