Lois and Richard Nicotra Early College Charter School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
7 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Staten Island · DBN 84R070
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 7
- Highest: US History
- 72.2%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 16.3%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 34.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 34.2% of the 73 students who took the Algebra I Regents at Lois and Richard Nicotra Early College Charter School scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 57.1% of 70 test takers (city: 47.6%).
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 7 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Living Environment / Biology (57.1% against 47.6%, +9.5 points) and the weakest is Geometry (16.3% against 42.7%, −26.4 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on US History (72.2%) and the lowest on Geometry (16.3%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 73.7% in 2018-19 (38 test takers) to 34.2% in 2024-25 (73), down 39.5 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 59.6% to 42% (−17.6 points). The largest move on any other exam is Living Environment / Biology: 77.8% in 2018-19, 57.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, Lois and Richard Nicotra Early College Charter School ranks 304th (tied with 1 other school at 34.2%). In Staten Island it is 10th of 16.
Algebra II: 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 Chemistry, Physics and Languages Other Than English.
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 Staten Island.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Staten Island |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 73 | 34.2% | 42% | −7.8 | 41.9% |
| Geometry | 43 | 16.3% | 42.7% | −26.4 | 43% |
| Algebra II | 9 | not published | 61.5% | — | 65.6% |
| English (ELA) | 65 | 64.6% | 71.7% | −7.1 | 82.8% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 70 | 57.1% | 47.6% | +9.5 | 50.2% |
| Earth Science | 47 | 36.2% | 44.1% | −7.9 | 40.1% |
| Global History | 62 | 69.4% | 73.3% | −3.9 | 75.9% |
| US History | 36 | 72.2% | 69.8% | +2.4 | 73.5% |
“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, 2018-19 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 | 2018-19 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 73.7%38 | 47.8%46 | 49.4%79 | 40.4%109 | 34.2%73 |
| Geometry | — | — | 15.2%46 | 3.6%28 | 16.3%43 |
| Algebra II | — | — | — | — | n/p9 |
| English (ELA) | — | — | 77.8%54 | 80.7%109 | 64.6%65 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 77.8%36 | 54.8%42 | 53.2%62 | 50.9%55 | 57.1%70 |
| Earth Science | n/p1 | — | 28.6%56 | 25.5%55 | 36.2%47 |
| Chemistry | — | — | n/p1 | — | — |
| Global History | n/p1 | 84.9%53 | 78.3%69 | 69.8%53 | 69.4%62 |
| US History | 63.9%36 | — | 87%46 | 78.7%47 | 72.2%36 |
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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- Lois and Richard Nicotra Early College Charter 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.