Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 21K344
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 97.5%
- Lowest: Physics
- 18.6%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 52.6%
In the 2024-25 school year, 54.3% of the 219 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies 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 52.6% of 215 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.
8 of the 11 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Global History (88.5% against 73.3%, +15.2 points) and the weakest is Physics (18.6% against 62.8%, −44.2 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (97.5%) and the lowest on Physics (18.6%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 66.9% in 2017-18 (142 test takers) to 54.3% in 2024-25 (219), down 12.6 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 Algebra II: 44% in 2017-18, 74.7% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies ranks 140th. In Brooklyn it is 35th of 143.
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 | 215 | 52.6% | 42% | +10.6 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 76 | 40.8% | 42.7% | −1.9 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 99 | 74.7% | 61.5% | +13.2 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 191 | 74.9% | 71.7% | +3.2 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 219 | 54.3% | 47.6% | +6.7 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 115 | 50.4% | 44.1% | +6.3 | 46% |
| Chemistry | 43 | 23.3% | 53.6% | −30.3 | 54.7% |
| Physics | 43 | 18.6% | 62.8% | −44.2 | 66.5% |
| Global History | 156 | 88.5% | 73.3% | +15.2 | 71% |
| US History | 190 | 78.4% | 69.8% | +8.6 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 40 | 97.5% | 92.1% | +5.4 | 92.4% |
“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 | 56.2%169 | 66.8%208 | 50%128 | 47.3%188 | 42.7%206 | 52.6%215 |
| Geometry | 22.7%22 | 63.2%68 | 37.5%96 | 23.1%104 | 52.4%63 | 40.8%76 |
| Algebra II | 44%200 | 32.8%125 | 16.4%122 | 26.6%139 | 57%121 | 74.7%99 |
| English (ELA) | 82.7%156 | 85.9%185 | 64.8%122 | 56%193 | 83.9%205 | 74.9%191 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 66.9%142 | 62.1%174 | 67.3%113 | 54.5%156 | 50.3%173 | 54.3%219 |
| Earth Science | 62.2%127 | 41.6%125 | 28.1%89 | 49.4%158 | 64.6%130 | 50.4%115 |
| Chemistry | 44.1%34 | 32.4%74 | 7.1%84 | 4.3%69 | 25%28 | 23.3%43 |
| Physics | — | — | — | 8.7%23 | 15.2%33 | 18.6%43 |
| Global History | 75.4%171 | 69.8%182 | 64.5%121 | 71.8%181 | 91.1%169 | 88.5%156 |
| US History | 75%140 | 74.4%172 | — | 70.6%126 | 84%119 | 78.4%190 |
| Languages Other Than English | 71.9%57 | 58.3%36 | 74.4%39 | 82.1%56 | 97.1%34 | 97.5%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.
- Rachel Carson HS for Coastal Studies 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.
- Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies 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.