Townsend Harris High School: Regents pass rates, 2024-25
11 Regents exams with a published rate · 2024-25 · Queens · DBN 25Q525
- Exams with a rate, 2024-25
- 11
- Highest: English (ELA)
- 98.5%
- Lowest: Earth Science
- 50%
- Algebra I, scored 65+
- 73.2%
In the 2024-25 school year, 98.5% of the 611 students who took the English (ELA) Regents at Townsend Harris High School scored 65 or higher, against 71.7% across the 549 New York City public schools with a published figure. On the Chemistry Regents it was 84% of 376 test takers (city: 53.6%).
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 11 exams with a published figure here come in above the city rate. The widest margin is on Geometry (85.5%, 42.8 points above the city's 42.7%), the narrowest on Languages Other Than English (+2.7 points). In raw terms the highest pass rate is on English (ELA) (98.5%) and the lowest on Earth Science (50%).
On English (ELA), the pass rate went from 100% in 2017-18 (289 test takers) to 98.5% in 2024-25 (611), down 1.5 points. Over the same span the city rate moved from 74.3% to 71.7% (−2.6 points). The largest move on any other exam is Algebra I: 100% in 2017-18, 73.2% in 2024-25.
Among the 549 schools with a published English (ELA) rate in 2024-25, Townsend Harris High School ranks 15th. In Queens it is 3rd of 94.
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 | 41 | 73.2% | 42% | +31.2 | 47.1% |
| Geometry | 352 | 85.5% | 42.7% | +42.8 | 42.5% |
| Algebra II | 375 | 93.6% | 61.5% | +32.1 | 61.2% |
| English (ELA) | 611 | 98.5% | 71.7% | +26.8 | 74.6% |
| Living Environment / Biology | 94 | 86.2% | 47.6% | +38.6 | 48.8% |
| Earth Science | 26 | 50% | 44.1% | +5.9 | 43.9% |
| Chemistry | 376 | 84% | 53.6% | +30.4 | 49.4% |
| Physics | 340 | 75.6% | 62.8% | +12.8 | 54.2% |
| Global History | 334 | 97.9% | 73.3% | +24.6 | 77.6% |
| US History | 214 | 91.6% | 69.8% | +21.8 | 73.9% |
| Languages Other Than English | 324 | 94.8% | 92.1% | +2.7 | 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 | 100%50 | 100%42 | 95%80 | 93.3%104 | 86.4%44 | 73.2%41 |
| Geometry | 98.5%261 | 98.6%296 | 89.4%320 | 81.5%276 | 91.2%342 | 85.5%352 |
| Algebra II | 100%304 | 100%296 | 97.5%326 | 93.4%316 | 93%286 | 93.6%375 |
| English (ELA) | 100%289 | 100%296 | n/p1 | 99.7%340 | 99.7%374 | 98.5%611 |
| Living Environment / Biology | 99.2%122 | 100%114 | 96.8%125 | 86.5%141 | 92.1%114 | 86.2%94 |
| Earth Science | — | — | 55.6%27 | 52.4%42 | 67.2%61 | 50%26 |
| Chemistry | 97%305 | 97%334 | 82.7%342 | 80.7%269 | 83.5%334 | 84%376 |
| Physics | 99.3%301 | 99%304 | 93.7%303 | 88.3%300 | 80.1%226 | 75.6%340 |
| Global History | 99%291 | 100%298 | 99.1%342 | 98.4%375 | 93.6%297 | 97.9%334 |
| US History | 100%271 | 99.6%237 | — | 97.2%212 | 95.4%262 | 91.6%214 |
| Languages Other Than English | 100%304 | 100%389 | 98.6%296 | 96.8%283 | 95.5%313 | 94.8%324 |
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.
- Townsend Harris 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.
- Townsend Harris 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.