Martin Van Buren High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 26Q435
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 93%
- Lowest: Physics
- 11.1%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 45.4%
In the 2024-25 school year, 70.3% of the 445 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Martin Van Buren 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 45.4% of 370 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.
4 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Global History (81.1% against 73.3%, +7.8 points) and the weakest is Physics (11.1% against 62.8%, −51.7 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (93%) and the lowest on Physics (11.1%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 69% in 2017-18 (368 test takers) to 70.3% in 2024-25 (445), up 1.3 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 Physics: 55.6% in 2017-18, 11.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Martin Van Buren High School ranks 249th. In Queens it is 56th of 94.
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 Queens.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Queens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 370 | 45.4% | 42% | +3.4 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 196 | 18.9% | 42.7% | −23.8 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 237 | 39.2% | 61.5% | −22.3 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 445 | 70.3% | 71.7% | −1.4 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 333 | 42.9% | 47.6% | −4.7 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 68 | 26.5% | 44.1% | −17.6 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 167 | 35.9% | 53.6% | −17.7 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 45 | 11.1% | 62.8% | −51.7 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 307 | 81.1% | 73.3% | +7.8 | 77.6% |
| US History | 256 | 73.8% | 69.8% | +4 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 86 | 93% | 92.1% | +0.9 | 91.9% |
“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 | 49.6%456 | 52%423 | 30.2%162 | 41.5%212 | 39%277 | 45.4%370 |
| Geometry | 21.9%228 | 32.4%253 | 16.7%215 | 17.8%303 | 7.7%39 | 18.9%196 |
| Algebra II | 40.2%239 | 45.5%134 | 9.9%202 | 15.2%138 | 30.5%348 | 39.2%237 |
| English (ELA) | 69%368 | 81.7%339 | 71.8%103 | 75.2%610 | 69.7%492 | 70.3%445 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 61.8%359 | 55.6%329 | 53.8%186 | 47.9%238 | 65.4%286 | 42.9%333 |
| Earth Science | 42.4%177 | 39.4%170 | 16.9%178 | 29%162 | 32.5%80 | 26.5%68 |
| Chemistry | 32.8%122 | 52.7%93 | 9.7%176 | 34.4%131 | 20.3%202 | 35.9%167 |
| Physics | 55.6%18 | 50%16 | 9.1%44 | 22.2%27 | 28.6%21 | 11.1%45 |
| Global History | 50.8%384 | 56.4%404 | 55.4%240 | 60.8%288 | 82.9%257 | 81.1%307 |
| US History | 48.5%165 | 65.8%263 | — | 57.2%208 | 78%264 | 73.8%256 |
| Languages Other Than English | 75.8%99 | 84.3%115 | 58.8%102 | 77.8%126 | 79.7%64 | 93%86 |
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.
- Martin Van Buren 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.
- Martin Van Buren 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.