NYS Assessments + Regents, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4).English Language Arts
97.0%
State avg 58.3%
District avg 72.3%
County avg 55.6%
+0.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
94.0%
State avg 57.4%
District avg 80.0%
County avg 56.6%
+1.0pp since 2023-24
Science
88.0%
State avg 57.3%
District avg 82.5%
County avg 68.4%
-5.0pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the NYS Assessments + Regents, New York's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 94 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 88 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58, 57, and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points and science scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
93.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+29.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is NYS Assessments + Regents?
New York public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take annual state assessments in English Language Arts and Math each spring, plus Science at grades 5 and 8. High school students take Regents Examinations in core subjects (ELA, Algebra I, Living Environment, etc.) which are required for a Regents diploma.
What does "% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Level 3 ("Proficient") or Level 4 ("Excels at Standards") on the 3-8 test, or at the passing threshold (65 or above) on a Regents Examination. New York reports four performance levels for grades 3-8; Levels 3 and 4 indicate grade-level proficiency. A higher number is better.
What does 97.0% mean for English Language Arts at HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WEST?
It means about 97.0 percent of students tested at HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WEST performed at grade level or above on the NYS Assessments + Regents English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for New York that year was 58.3%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in New York, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
New York State Education Department (NYSED), Grades 3-8 ELA/Math/Science assessments + Regents Examinations, via the NYSED School Report Card database (data.nysed.gov). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient" rate (Level 3 + Level 4 for 3-8; passing Regents score for HS).
How often is it updated?
NYS Assessments + Regents is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
