The Cinema School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
10 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Bronx · DBN 12X478
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 10
- Highest: Languages Other Than English
- 91.3%
- Lowest: Physics
- 0%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 16.8%
In the 2024-25 school year, 16.8% of the 125 students who took the Algebra I Regents at The Cinema School scored 65 or higher, against 42% across the 520 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Earth Science Regents it was 45.8% of 96 test takers (city: 44.1%).
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.
1 of the 10 exams with a published figure are above the city rate. Relative to the city, the strongest result is Earth Science (45.8% against 44.1%, +1.7 points) and the weakest is Physics (0% against 62.8%, −62.8 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on Languages Other Than English (91.3%) and the lowest on Physics (0%).
On Algebra I, the pass rate went from 72% in 2017-18 (82 test takers) to 16.8% in 2024-25 (125), down 55.2 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 US History: 90.7% in 2017-18, 33.3% in 2024-25.
Among the 520 schools with a published Algebra I rate in 2024-25, The Cinema School ranks 473rd (tied with 1 other school at 16.8%). In the Bronx it is 128th of 144.
Chemistry: 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.
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 the Bronx.
| Exam | Test takers | Scored 65+ | NYC | Gap (pts) | Bronx |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algebra I | 125 | 16.8% | 42% | −25.2 | 37.2% |
| Geometry | 49 | 6.1% | 42.7% | −36.6 | 34.3% |
| Algebra II | 74 | 17.6% | 61.5% | −43.9 | 54.3% |
| English (ELA) | 75 | 52% | 71.7% | −19.7 | 66.2% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 31 | 22.6% | 47.6% | −25 | 44.4% |
| Earth Science | 96 | 45.8% | 44.1% | +1.7 | 40.5% |
| Chemistry | 7 | not published | 53.6% | — | 48.5% |
| Physics | 24 | 0% | 62.8% | −62.8 | 71.1% |
| Global History | 90 | 51.1% | 73.3% | −22.2 | 67.4% |
| US History | 66 | 33.3% | 69.8% | −36.5 | 64.5% |
| Languages Other Than English | 23 | 91.3% | 92.1% | −0.8 | 89.6% |
“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.
Preparing for the Regents at Cinema School?
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 | 72%82 | 77.2%92 | 50%64 | 34.6%81 | 21.1%109 | 16.8%125 |
| Geometry | 48.3%89 | 54.8%93 | 7.2%69 | 5.8%103 | n/p7 | 6.1%49 |
| Algebra II | 23%61 | 37.8%37 | 11.3%53 | 1.9%54 | 10.4%96 | 17.6%74 |
| English (ELA) | 81.4%70 | 91.1%90 | 74.5%106 | 64.6%96 | 77.2%79 | 52%75 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 67.1%82 | 55.8%86 | 72.7%66 | 40.7%86 | 26.5%68 | 22.6%31 |
| Earth Science | 58.2%79 | 67.6%74 | 28.4%67 | 56.5%69 | 20.9%67 | 45.8%96 |
| Chemistry | 29.6%54 | 22%41 | — | 0%38 | — | n/p7 |
| Physics | n/p2 | n/p3 | — | n/p5 | 0%17 | 0%24 |
| Global History | 69.9%83 | 79.2%96 | 70.7%82 | 52%102 | 53.9%76 | 51.1%90 |
| US History | 90.7%75 | 93.7%63 | — | 52%75 | 52.4%63 | 33.3%66 |
| Languages Other Than English | 81.3%16 | n/p5 | — | n/p2 | — | 91.3%23 |
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.
- Cinema 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.
- The Cinema 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.