Preparatory Academy for Writers: A College Board School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 29Q283
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: US History
- 91.9%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 48.6%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 65.8%
In the 2024-25 school year, 63.7% of the 91 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at Preparatory Academy for Writers: A College Board School scored 65 or higher, against 47.6% across the 504 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Global History Regents it was 90.9% of 77 test takers (city: 73.3%).
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.
8 of the 9 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (65.8% against 42%, +23.8 points) and the weakest is Languages Other Than English (87.5% against 92.1%, −4.6 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on US History (91.9%) and the lowest on Geometry (48.6%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 62% in 2017-18 (79 test takers) to 63.7% in 2024-25 (91), up 1.7 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 Languages Other Than English: 46.7% in 2017-18, 87.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, Preparatory Academy for Writers: A College Board School ranks 82nd. In Queens it is 13th of 87.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Earth Science 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 Queens.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Queens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 73 | 65.8% | 42% | +23.8 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 74 | 48.6% | 42.7% | +5.9 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 26 | 69.2% | 61.5% | +7.7 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 67 | 88.1% | 71.7% | +16.4 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 91 | 63.7% | 47.6% | +16.1 | 48.8% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 60% | 53.6% | +6.4 | 49.4% |
| Global History | 77 | 90.9% | 73.3% | +17.6 | 77.6% |
| US History | 62 | 91.9% | 69.8% | +22.1 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 24 | 87.5% | 92.1% | −4.6 | 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.
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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 | 65.2%69 | 63.3%109 | 53.3%60 | 64.8%105 | 60.3%73 | 65.8%73 |
| Geometry | 59.7%62 | 46.9%49 | 12.5%64 | 42.7%75 | 51.7%60 | 48.6%74 |
| Algebra II | 44.2%77 | 49.4%79 | 13.9%36 | 32%50 | 73.2%41 | 69.2%26 |
| English (ELA) | 88.8%89 | 85.6%111 | 84%106 | 91%89 | 89.8%59 | 88.1%67 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 62%79 | 63.6%107 | 67.2%67 | 65.6%64 | 76.2%63 | 63.7%91 |
| Earth Science | 45.8%24 | n/p1 | — | n/p3 | — | — |
| Chemistry | 64.9%57 | 59.6%52 | 46.2%52 | 38.5%52 | 61.1%54 | 60%30 |
| Physics | — | — | n/p6 | — | — | — |
| Global History | 85%60 | 91.5%164 | 82.7%81 | 84%75 | 93.2%59 | 90.9%77 |
| US History | n/p11 | 54.2%24 | — | 84.6%65 | 89%82 | 91.9%62 |
| Languages Other Than English | 46.7%45 | 62.1%29 | 50%24 | — | 93.3%30 | 87.5%24 |
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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- Preparatory Academy for Writers: A College Board 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.