The core academic curriculum also ensures that he can enter college. A wide range of electives and co-curricular activities are available to students. One elective observed was a course focusing on product research and development. The instructor, a Ph.D. in Engineering, is available to students during the day who come to work on their inventions, several of which have pending applications for patents. Eighty students staff the publication that receives 18,000 hits per day.
Teens nationwide can respond to the articles by e-mail and post stories on the site.
The publication has relationships with the Bergen Record, a local newspaper that serves as an alternative campus and makes its facilities available to students for research and other learning opportunities, and with 12 schools in Northern New Jersey. As part of the requirement for graduation, seniors are required to participate in a senior experience, an internship that is an interactive learning partnership through which students increase, in depth and scope, their knowledge and abilities in a selected area of study. Student interns report directly to their internship every Wednesday during the academic year for a full business day. One or more individuals mentor them, and the program concludes in May with a Senior Exhibition, a highly personalized presentation made by the student to the Academy community. Students have served in a wide variety of internships during their senior experience and are widely perceived by the employer community to be serious, competent, caring, and skilled.