Nelson Mandela High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
5 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 16K765
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 5
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 48.9%
- Lowest: Living Environment / Biology
- 22.7%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 25.7%
In the 2024-25 school year, 22.7% of the 75 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at Nelson Mandela High School scored 65 or higher, against 47.6% across the 504 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Algebra I Regents it was 25.7% of 74 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.
All 5 exams with a published figure here come in below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Algebra I (−16.3 points against the city's 42%), the largest on US History (32.5% against 69.8%, 37.3 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (48.9%) and the lowest on Living Environment / Biology (22.7%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 32.7% in 2017-18 (104 test takers) to 22.7% in 2024-25 (75), down 10 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 62.7% to 47.6% (−15.1 points). The largest move on any other exam is US History: 82.2% in 2017-18, 32.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, Nelson Mandela High School ranks 476th. In Brooklyn it is 136th of 143.
Geometry, Algebra II and Chemistry: fewer than 15 students sat these exams 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, 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 Brooklyn.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Brooklyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 74 | 25.7% | 42% | −16.3 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 1 | not published | 42.7% | — | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 8 | not published | 61.5% | — | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 45 | 48.9% | 71.7% | −22.8 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 75 | 22.7% | 47.6% | −24.9 | 46.9% |
| Chemistry | 3 | not published | 53.6% | — | 54.7% |
| Global History | 57 | 38.6% | 73.3% | −34.7 | 71% |
| US History | 40 | 32.5% | 69.8% | −37.3 | 67.5% |
“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, 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 | 55.1%69 | 52.1%96 | 25%28 | 30.4%46 | 15.9%44 | 25.7%74 |
| Geometry | n/p5 | n/p6 | n/p2 | n/p10 | 0%25 | n/p1 |
| Algebra II | — | — | — | — | — | n/p8 |
| English (ELA) | 65.8%76 | 67.3%55 | 36.4%33 | 53.7%41 | 60%40 | 48.9%45 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 32.7%104 | 26.4%91 | 27.8%18 | 18.9%53 | 18.9%53 | 22.7%75 |
| Earth Science | n/p1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chemistry | n/p11 | n/p5 | — | — | — | n/p3 |
| Global History | 43.8%153 | 48.4%95 | 40.5%37 | 43.2%37 | 36.7%49 | 38.6%57 |
| US History | 82.2%45 | 74.7%75 | — | n/p3 | 43.5%23 | 32.5%40 |
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.
- Nelson Mandela 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.
- Nelson Mandela 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.