All of Yorktown's classrooms were recently cabled for Internet access in the fall of 1998. Students take the core courses outlined in the Arlington core curriculum and enrich their learning with their electives such as foreign languages and fine arts. Yorktown offers French, German, Latin and Spanish to its students interested in pursuing foreign language study. Students are extremely involved in drama and theater because they are responsible for their own productions in that the school productions are all student run and student organized. Drama and theater students learn everything from play writing to directing and performing.
Students get considerable experience in the technical aspects of theater.
A mentorship class in theater puts students in charge of schoolwide productions. An active thespian group annually creates a Halloween haunted house, produces, directs and acts in an annual Shakespeare Festival and attend regular theater performances in the Washington Metropolitan area. Advanced performance students tour to local elementary schools and perform in an area mall. Crossroads is a new series of regular meetings and panels for Yorktown seniors that helps with the challenges of preparing them to move onto college or work and at the same time offers the students an opportunity to look back at where they've been as well as where they're headed. Connections is Yorktown's outreach effort to help eighth grade students make the successful transition from middle school to the high school setting.