Richmond Hill High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 27Q475
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 95.7%
- Lowest: Geometry
- 12%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 42.5%
In the 2024-25 school year, 45.4% of the 619 students who took the Living Environment / Biology Regents at Richmond Hill High School scored 65 or higher, against 47.6% across the 504 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 72.2% of 551 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.
5 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Chemistry (65.4% against 53.6%, +11.8 points) and the weakest is Algebra II (27.1% against 61.5%, −34.4 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (95.7%) and the lowest on Geometry (12%).
On Living Environment / Biology, the pass rate went from 52.4% in 2017-18 (572 test takers) to 45.4% in 2024-25 (619), down 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 Algebra II: 55.7% in 2017-18, 27.1% in 2024-25.
Among the 504 schools with a published Living Environment / Biology rate in 2024-25, Richmond Hill High School ranks 224th. In Queens it is 44th of 87.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on 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 | 475 | 42.5% | 42% | +0.5 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 25 | 12% | 42.7% | −30.7 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 376 | 27.1% | 61.5% | −34.4 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 551 | 72.2% | 71.7% | +0.5 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 619 | 45.4% | 47.6% | −2.2 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 216 | 54.2% | 44.1% | +10.1 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 26 | 65.4% | 53.6% | +11.8 | 49.4% |
| Global History | 533 | 67.4% | 73.3% | −5.9 | 77.6% |
| US History | 452 | 69% | 69.8% | −0.8 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 162 | 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.
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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 | 51.5%582 | 59.2%566 | 29.2%226 | 48.2%386 | 48.9%237 | 42.5%475 |
| Geometry | 40.4%356 | 29.4%343 | 4%326 | 17%329 | 13.1%337 | 12%25 |
| Algebra II | 55.7%79 | 75.4%126 | 9.2%271 | 19.4%67 | 55.2%67 | 27.1%376 |
| English (ELA) | 66.4%515 | 72.1%502 | 80.3%61 | 63.1%404 | 68.4%500 | 72.2%551 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 52.4%572 | 56.4%548 | 47.1%333 | 46.3%417 | 37.6%335 | 45.4%619 |
| Earth Science | 61.3%261 | 49.3%290 | 18.9%254 | 38.1%307 | 39.4%358 | 54.2%216 |
| Chemistry | 83.8%37 | 47.4%38 | 50.9%57 | 47.4%19 | 65.5%29 | 65.4%26 |
| Physics | 48.1%27 | 72.9%48 | n/p8 | n/p11 | — | — |
| Global History | 54.5%594 | 60.2%507 | 65.5%365 | 54%441 | 70.4%436 | 67.4%533 |
| US History | 62.1%456 | 62.4%412 | — | 57.1%338 | 65.5%394 | 69%452 |
| Languages Other Than English | 94%199 | 97%201 | 93.5%108 | 99.1%106 | 97.9%187 | 95.7%162 |
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.
- Richmond Hill 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.
- Richmond Hill 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.