Students are offered a wide selection of courses and activities to provide them with a complete educational experience both inside the classroom and out. A recent ranking of high schools in the Washington Metropolitan area by The Washington Post placed Yorktown within the top ten most academically challenging high schools in the area and the school always has a high representation of students who are named National Merit Semifinalists. Yorktown students have a high knowledge of the importance of technology and they use it to their advantage. Students use the Internet to conduct research on anything from term papers to prospective colleges. The school has two pentium computer labs as well as three business computer labs, one computer science class lab, a word processing lab in the Media Center, a mini-lab for the Yorktown Sentry and two teacher productivity centers in addition to individual computers placed throughout classrooms for academic and staff use.
Students use the general use pentium computer lab to integrate technology into their curriculums.
Applications range from productivity applications such as word processing, database, spreadsheets and graphs and charts to web page design, multi-media slide shows and Internet research. The Media Center serves as the instructional center of Yorktown. It serves as the source for research, recreational reading and curriculum enrichment by offering a variety of materials and media. In addition, students have access to the Internet, word processing, a graphics program and an in-house local area network. The staff is available from 7 am.