Newtown High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 24Q455
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 95.7%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 28%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 35.9%
In the 2024-25 school year, 58.7% of the 845 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Newtown 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 35.9% of 792 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 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is US History (77.5% against 69.8%, +7.7 points) and the weakest is Physics (39.3% against 62.8%, −23.5 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (95.7%) and the lowest on Geometry (28%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 70.8% in 2017-18 (716 test takers) to 58.7% in 2024-25 (845), down 12.1 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 Algebra I: 64.2% in 2017-18, 35.9% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Newtown High School ranks 372nd. In Queens it is 80th 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 | 792 | 35.9% | 42% | −6.1 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 504 | 28% | 42.7% | −14.7 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 270 | 46.7% | 61.5% | −14.8 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 845 | 58.7% | 71.7% | −13 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 770 | 38.8% | 47.6% | −8.8 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 389 | 32.4% | 44.1% | −11.7 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 153 | 44.4% | 53.6% | −9.2 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 28 | 39.3% | 62.8% | −23.5 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 584 | 72.8% | 73.3% | −0.5 | 77.6% |
| US History | 559 | 77.5% | 69.8% | +7.7 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 328 | 95.7% | 92.1% | +3.6 | 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.
Preparing for the Regents at Newtown High School?
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%545 | 61.1%434 | 40.6%436 | 46.4%457 | 38.2%516 | 35.9%792 |
| Geometry | 48.6%331 | 55.3%246 | 24.4%348 | 35.3%411 | 31.4%392 | 28%504 |
| Algebra II | 46.9%162 | 56.1%157 | 31.5%241 | 26%223 | 45.4%304 | 46.7%270 |
| English (ELA) | 70.8%716 | 76.4%564 | 61.7%363 | 70.3%516 | 69.7%595 | 58.7%845 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 58.6%565 | 46.2%507 | 62.9%410 | 50.8%378 | 32.7%492 | 38.8%770 |
| Earth Science | 60.2%374 | 37.3%343 | 35.9%262 | 41.1%431 | 34.6%410 | 32.4%389 |
| Chemistry | 38.5%78 | 37.9%66 | 14.7%150 | 30.4%115 | 23.3%176 | 44.4%153 |
| Physics | 59.1%22 | 66.7%30 | 21.2%52 | 25.4%63 | 22.9%35 | 39.3%28 |
| Global History | 70.4%567 | 68.1%473 | 72.2%353 | 67.6%438 | 72.2%482 | 72.8%584 |
| US History | 56.9%721 | 45.4%614 | — | 67.8%338 | 68.6%478 | 77.5%559 |
| Languages Other Than English | 95.6%203 | 97.2%215 | 81.9%199 | 97.5%242 | 96.2%264 | 95.7%328 |
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.
- Newtown 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.
- Newtown 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.