New Design High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
6 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 02M543
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 6
- Highest: Global History
- 57.5%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 8.1%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 26.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 26.2% of the 145 students who took the Algebra I Regents at New Design High School scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 53.9% of 141 test takers (city: 71.7%).
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.
1 of the 6 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Living Environment / Biology (53.7% against 47.6%, +6.1 points) and the weakest is Earth Science (8.1% against 44.1%, −36 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Global History (57.5%) and the lowest on Earth Science (8.1%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 35.2% in 2017-18 (193 test takers) to 26.2% in 2024-25 (145), down 9 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 57.5% to 42% (−15.5 points). The largest move on any other exam is Earth Science: 73.5% in 2017-18, 8.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, New Design High School ranks 381st (tied with 3 other schools at 26.2%). In Manhattan it is 91st of 122.
Geometry, Algebra II and Languages Other Than English: 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 Chemistry and 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 Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 145 | 26.2% | 42% | −15.8 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 5 | not published | 42.7% | — | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 9 | not published | 61.5% | — | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 141 | 53.9% | 71.7% | −17.8 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 95 | 53.7% | 47.6% | +6.1 | 50% |
| Earth Science | 62 | 8.1% | 44.1% | −36 | 47.2% |
| Global History | 120 | 57.5% | 73.3% | −15.8 | 76.4% |
| US History | 104 | 51.9% | 69.8% | −17.9 | 72.2% |
| Languages Other Than English | 4 | not published | 92.1% | — | 93.9% |
“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 | 35.2%193 | 47.7%197 | 31.5%124 | 36.1%119 | 21.2%104 | 26.2%145 |
| Geometry | n/p10 | n/p14 | n/p4 | n/p1 | n/p13 | n/p5 |
| Algebra II | — | — | — | n/p2 | — | n/p9 |
| English (ELA) | 83.1%89 | 90.2%123 | 66.7%132 | 66.8%199 | 61.5%130 | 53.9%141 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 46%161 | 50.4%125 | — | 33.3%66 | 27.6%29 | 53.7%95 |
| Earth Science | 73.5%49 | 34.3%70 | 12.5%104 | 48.7%39 | 27.5%171 | 8.1%62 |
| Chemistry | — | — | n/p1 | — | — | — |
| Global History | 53.4%148 | 63.4%123 | 62.2%37 | 63.6%140 | 51.2%86 | 57.5%120 |
| US History | 66.3%83 | 55.6%99 | — | 59.5%116 | 66.7%96 | 51.9%104 |
| Languages Other Than English | — | — | n/p1 | — | n/p2 | n/p4 |
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.
- New Design 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.
- New Design 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.