Life Academy High School for Film and Music: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 21K559
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 87.5%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 10%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 60.6%
In the 2024-25 school year, 54.1% of the 111 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Life Academy High School for Film and Music 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 60.6% of 99 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.
2 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (60.6% against 42%, +18.6 points) and the weakest is Chemistry (10% against 53.6%, −43.6 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (87.5%) and the lowest on Chemistry (10%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 74.4% in 2017-18 (78 test takers) to 54.1% in 2024-25 (111), down 20.3 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: 45.8% in 2017-18, 10% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Life Academy High School for Film and Music ranks 416th (tied with 1 other school at 54.1%). In Brooklyn it is 95th of 152.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on 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 | 99 | 60.6% | 42% | +18.6 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 37 | 18.9% | 42.7% | −23.8 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 75 | 49.3% | 61.5% | −12.2 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 111 | 54.1% | 71.7% | −17.6 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 95 | 42.1% | 47.6% | −5.5 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 83 | 39.8% | 44.1% | −4.3 | 46% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 10% | 53.6% | −43.6 | 54.7% |
| Global History | 71 | 66.2% | 73.3% | −7.1 | 71% |
| US History | 53 | 75.5% | 69.8% | +5.7 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 16 | 87.5% | 92.1% | −4.6 | 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 | 64.2%137 | 75.3%89 | 61.5%78 | 33%91 | 34.4%93 | 60.6%99 |
| Geometry | 42.2%109 | 29.2%96 | 4.4%45 | 10%100 | 21%119 | 18.9%37 |
| Algebra II | n/p10 | 60%25 | 28.6%35 | 30.1%73 | 24.6%61 | 49.3%75 |
| English (ELA) | 74.4%78 | 81.5%81 | 59.7%67 | 53.1%81 | 52.7%74 | 54.1%111 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 60.2%108 | 42.7%89 | 37.3%59 | 23.5%81 | 28.8%104 | 42.1%95 |
| Earth Science | 51.9%81 | 17.2%64 | 5.9%34 | 19.5%82 | 16.1%87 | 39.8%83 |
| Chemistry | 45.8%24 | 43.8%16 | n/p3 | n/p1 | 13.9%36 | 10%30 |
| Global History | 52.6%116 | 57.1%112 | 34%47 | 50%84 | 54.3%81 | 66.2%71 |
| US History | 65.9%82 | 53.2%79 | — | 57.4%47 | 51.4%70 | 75.5%53 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p1 | n/p8 | 90.9%22 | 97.7%43 | n/p7 | 87.5%16 |
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.
- Life Academy HS for Film and Music 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.
- Life Academy High School for Film and Music 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.