Queens High School for the Sciences at York College: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 28Q687
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Algebra II
- 100%
- Lowest: Physics
- 95.6%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 96.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 98.6% of the 142 students who took the Geometry Regents at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College scored 65 or higher, against 42.7% across the 389 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Chemistry Regents it was 97.1% of 138 test takers (city: 53.6%).
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 9 exams with a published figure here come in above the city rate. The widest margin is on Geometry (98.6%, 55.9 points above the city's 42.7%), the narrowest on Languages Other Than English (+7.1 points).
On Geometry, the pass rate went from 100% in 2017-18 (147 test takers) to 98.6% in 2024-25 (142), down 1.4 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 56.7% to 42.7% (−14 points).
Among the 389 schools with a published Geometry rate in 2024-25, Queens High School for the Sciences at York College ranks 5th (tied with 3 other schools at 98.6%). In Queens it is 1st of 79.
US History: fewer than 15 students sat this exam 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.
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 | 27 | 96.3% | 42% | +54.3 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 142 | 98.6% | 42.7% | +55.9 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 122 | 100% | 61.5% | +38.5 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 111 | 100% | 71.7% | +28.3 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 34 | 97.1% | 47.6% | +49.5 | 48.8% |
| Chemistry | 138 | 97.1% | 53.6% | +43.5 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 113 | 95.6% | 62.8% | +32.8 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 106 | 100% | 73.3% | +26.7 | 77.6% |
| US History | 8 | not published | 69.8% | — | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 128 | 99.2% | 92.1% | +7.1 | 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 | 100%31 | 100%22 | 100%53 | 100%25 | 95.7%23 | 96.3%27 |
| Geometry | 100%147 | 99.2%131 | 99.3%147 | 97.7%130 | 98.1%107 | 98.6%142 |
| Algebra II | 100%129 | 100%140 | 100%136 | 98.5%133 | 100%140 | 100%122 |
| English (ELA) | 100%229 | 100%133 | 100%150 | 100%131 | 100%121 | 100%111 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 100%65 | 100%58 | 100%55 | 100%35 | 100%31 | 97.1%34 |
| Chemistry | 98.7%153 | 98.6%142 | 94.4%144 | 98.6%146 | 100%109 | 97.1%138 |
| Physics | 99.2%120 | 98.4%122 | 80.3%137 | 89.9%178 | 95.7%141 | 95.6%113 |
| Global History | 100%117 | 100%130 | 100%141 | 100%134 | 100%129 | 100%106 |
| US History | 100%106 | 100%102 | — | n/p10 | 100%30 | n/p8 |
| Languages Other Than English | 100%85 | 100%131 | 100%140 | 97.9%145 | 100%92 | 99.2%128 |
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.
- Queens for the Sciences at York College 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.
- Queens High School for the Sciences at York College 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.