Special Music School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
9 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Manhattan · DBN 03M859
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 9
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 100%
- Lowest: Physics
- 40.5%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 85.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 68.8% of the 48 students who took the Geometry Regents at Special Music School scored 65 or higher, against 42.7% across the 389 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the English (ELA) Regents it was 100% of 46 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.
8 of the 9 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Algebra I (85.2% against 42%, +43.2 points) and the weakest is Physics (40.5% against 62.8%, −22.3 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (100%) and the lowest on Physics (40.5%).
On Geometry, the pass rate went from 61.5% in 2017-18 (52 test takers) to 68.8% in 2024-25 (48), up 7.3 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 56.7% to 42.7% (−14 points). The largest move on any other exam is Chemistry: 33.3% in 2017-18, 72.5% in 2024-25.
Among the 389 schools with a published Geometry rate in 2024-25, Special Music School ranks 39th. In Manhattan it is 15th of 90.
The DOE file has no 2024-25 line at all for this school on Earth Science and Languages Other Than English.
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 Manhattan.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Manhattan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 27 | 85.2% | 42% | +43.2 | 43.8% |
| Geometry | 48 | 68.8% | 42.7% | +26.1 | 49.5% |
| Algebra II | 34 | 91.2% | 61.5% | +29.7 | 68.4% |
| English (ELA) | 46 | 100% | 71.7% | +28.3 | 77.3% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 28 | 78.6% | 47.6% | +31 | 50% |
| Chemistry | 40 | 72.5% | 53.6% | +18.9 | 60.2% |
| Physics | 37 | 40.5% | 62.8% | −22.3 | 67% |
| Global History | 39 | 100% | 73.3% | +26.7 | 76.4% |
| US History | 40 | 95% | 69.8% | +25.2 | 72.2% |
“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 | 85.2%61 | 91.7%36 | n/p5 | 90%30 | 87.5%32 | 85.2%27 |
| Geometry | 61.5%52 | 85.4%48 | 47.4%19 | 87.8%41 | 87.9%33 | 68.8%48 |
| Algebra II | 79.6%49 | 65.1%43 | n/p11 | 89.2%37 | 87.1%70 | 91.2%34 |
| English (ELA) | 100%45 | 100%51 | 94.7%38 | 89.8%49 | 100%52 | 100%46 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 90.5%42 | 95.2%42 | 90.5%21 | 100%27 | 95.7%23 | 78.6%28 |
| Chemistry | 33.3%51 | 61.4%44 | 86.7%15 | 72.7%44 | 84.6%39 | 72.5%40 |
| Physics | — | 45%20 | n/p11 | 54.8%31 | 68.2%44 | 40.5%37 |
| Global History | 92.9%56 | 95.6%45 | 100%25 | 97.6%41 | 100%45 | 100%39 |
| US History | 97.5%40 | 97.8%46 | — | 97.8%46 | 93.2%44 | 95%40 |
| Languages Other Than English | n/p9 | n/p2 | — | — | — | — |
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.
- Special Music 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.
- Special Music 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.