School for Classics High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K683
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 75%
- Lowest: Chemistry
- 0%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 19.3%
In the 2024-25 school year, 19.3% of the 202 students who took the Algebra I Regents at School for Classics High School scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Living Environment / Biology Regents it was 29.9% of 187 test takers (city: 47.6%).
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 below the city rate. The smallest gap is on Languages Other Than English (−17.1 points against the city's 92.1%), the largest on Algebra II (4.4% against 61.5%, 57.1 points below). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (75%) and the lowest on Chemistry (0%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 47.9% in 2017-18 (119 test takers) to 19.3% in 2024-25 (202), down 28.6 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 57.5% to 42% (−15.5 points). The largest move on any other exam is English (ELA): 65% in 2017-18, 36.8% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, School for Classics High School ranks 457th. In Brooklyn it is 126th of 147.
Earth Science: 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 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 Brooklyn.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Brooklyn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 202 | 19.3% | 42% | −22.7 | 40.6% |
| Geometry | 15 | 6.7% | 42.7% | −36 | 43.2% |
| Algebra II | 45 | 4.4% | 61.5% | −57.1 | 60% |
| English (ELA) | 114 | 36.8% | 71.7% | −34.9 | 67.5% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 187 | 29.9% | 47.6% | −17.7 | 46.9% |
| Earth Science | 1 | not published | 44.1% | — | 46% |
| Chemistry | 35 | 0% | 53.6% | −53.6 | 54.7% |
| Global History | 109 | 23.9% | 73.3% | −49.4 | 71% |
| US History | 140 | 19.3% | 69.8% | −50.5 | 67.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 20 | 75% | 92.1% | −17.1 | 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 | 47.9%119 | 32.7%98 | 16.4%55 | 12.2%139 | 11.7%162 | 19.3%202 |
| Geometry | 22.6%106 | 9%78 | 2.6%39 | 3.6%55 | 8.6%58 | 6.7%15 |
| Algebra II | n/p8 | 27.6%29 | 6.3%48 | 2.2%45 | 14.3%49 | 4.4%45 |
| English (ELA) | 65%103 | 75.7%107 | 42%88 | 38%121 | 37.9%116 | 36.8%114 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 36.8%106 | 31.3%99 | 20.8%53 | 10%70 | 10.4%134 | 29.9%187 |
| Earth Science | 32.4%102 | 25.8%66 | 12.9%31 | 19.6%51 | 4.2%48 | n/p1 |
| Chemistry | n/p10 | 24.1%29 | 0%44 | 3.7%27 | 2.8%36 | 0%35 |
| Global History | 46.6%133 | 52.9%85 | 32.7%49 | 38.5%78 | 37.1%89 | 23.9%109 |
| US History | 47%83 | 39.7%78 | — | 29.6%54 | 51.9%77 | 19.3%140 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p13 | 96.7%30 | n/p12 | n/p9 | n/p10 | 75%20 |
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.
- School for Classics 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.
- School for Classics 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.