NYS Assessments + Regents, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4).English Language Arts
98.0%
State avg 58.3%
District avg 66.2%
County avg 61.9%
-2.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
70.0%
State avg 57.4%
District avg 67.9%
County avg 60.8%
-15.0pp since 2023-24
Science
73.0%
State avg 57.3%
District avg 41.8%
County avg 36.8%
-17.0pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the NYS Assessments + Regents, New York's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 70 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 73 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 are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 15 points and science scores are down about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+33.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% 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 33 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 98.0% mean for English Language Arts at TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL?
It means about 98.0 percent of students tested at TOWNSEND HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL 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.
