Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 22K535
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 96%
- Lowest: Physics
- 48.4%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 58.5%
In the 2024-25 school year, 96% of the 272 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Global History Regents it was 91.8% of 243 test takers (city: 73.3%).
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 Algebra II (88.5% against 61.5%, +27 points) and the weakest is Physics (48.4% against 62.8%, −14.4 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (96%) and the lowest on Physics (48.4%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 96.2% in 2017-18 (238 test takers) to 96% in 2024-25 (272), down 0.2 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 Physics: 93.4% in 2017-18, 48.4% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences ranks 24th. In Brooklyn it is 4th 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 | 106 | 58.5% | 42% | +16.5 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 228 | 64.9% | 42.7% | +22.2 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 200 | 88.5% | 61.5% | +27 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 272 | 96% | 71.7% | +24.3 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 120 | 65% | 47.6% | +17.4 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 50 | 56% | 44.1% | +11.9 | 46% |
| Chemistry | 216 | 65.3% | 53.6% | +11.7 | 54.7% |
| Physics | 122 | 48.4% | 62.8% | −14.4 | 66.5% |
| Global History | 243 | 91.8% | 73.3% | +18.5 | 71% |
| US History | 215 | 88.8% | 69.8% | +19 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 192 | 83.3% | 92.1% | −8.8 | 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 | 84.6%91 | 83.8%130 | 89.1%119 | 82.1%173 | 71.4%84 | 58.5%106 |
| Geometry | 94.3%230 | 91.4%266 | 82%128 | 67.1%249 | 66.2%278 | 64.9%228 |
| Algebra II | 96.5%227 | 98.2%224 | 93%213 | 84.7%144 | 92.7%205 | 88.5%200 |
| English (ELA) | 96.2%238 | 98.1%262 | n/p2 | 95.1%246 | 94.1%202 | 96%272 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 85.2%149 | 87.8%148 | 95.6%114 | 76.5%162 | 76.4%110 | 65%120 |
| Earth Science | 61%59 | 63.4%41 | n/p14 | 45.5%33 | 56.1%66 | 56%50 |
| Chemistry | 96.2%211 | 93.3%285 | 77.1%144 | 84.2%203 | 59.5%237 | 65.3%216 |
| Physics | 93.4%213 | 92.4%158 | 75.4%122 | 60.2%83 | 67.8%90 | 48.4%122 |
| Global History | 93.6%283 | 92.5%255 | 97.1%241 | 87.9%215 | 88.2%280 | 91.8%243 |
| US History | 97.4%227 | 97.1%239 | — | 93.1%203 | 91.6%167 | 88.8%215 |
| Languages Other Than English | 96%202 | 99%197 | 86.4%147 | 95%180 | 87.5%144 | 83.3%192 |
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.
- Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences 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.
- Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences 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.