At a Glance
A small screened Bronx high school where every surveyed family reports trust — and where nearly every student shares a cultural background with every other.
Best suited for
Hispanic families in the western Bronx who want a small, tightly-knit screened high school with strong family-school trust, structured career-pathway programs in tech or media, and ELL and Spanish language support.
Overall Rating
Rating = average of 4-year graduation, English Regents college-ready and Regents completion · DOE 2025 report
Bands are Motley's thresholds on a 0–100 scale, not New York State performance levels.
How this is scored→What stands out
- Three screened NAF career pathways in media communications, computer technology, and computer networking, each oversubscribed by roughly 10x or more
- 100% parent satisfaction, parent-teacher trust, and parent-principal trust — well above district averages and paired with a 99% family survey response rate
- Zero suspensions in the year reported, against a district suspension rate near 0.4%
- Small enrollment of around 381 students keeps the school feeling closer to an academy than a large comprehensive high school
- Curriculum emphasis on AP coursework, STEM, and Spanish language support for ELL students
Things to consider
- The student body is 100% Hispanic with zero demographic diversity, so families seeking a deliberately multicultural environment should look elsewhere
- Screened admissions with offer rates of 4–9% mean entry is genuinely competitive and self-selecting
- Only 4% of students have IEPs, so families seeking robust special-education services may find limited capacity here
- PTA fundraising is minimal at about $2 per student (well below the district average of roughly $4.40), so don't expect a heavily resourced parent-spending ecosystem
- The surrounding neighborhood is one of the poorer in the Bronx, with a 37% poverty rate and median income around $32,000
Based on 2024-25 data
School SummaryDistrict 9
Most of the district's top peers on the comparable list are charter schools (Icahn, Success Academy, Bronx Charter for Excellence), so this screened public high school isn't a like-for-like comparison — it's the only traditional public school in that group. Within District 9's traditional schools, the climate and family-trust numbers here are unusually strong, though academic outcome data isn't included for a clean peer benchmark.
Academics
The school's curriculum is built around AP coursework, STEM pathways, and three screened NAF programs in media communications, computer technology, and computer networking — each of which is oversubscribed many times over. Average class size is roughly 21 students, essentially identical to the district average. Screened admissions with offer rates between 4% and 9% suggest the school selects for students motivated by a structured pathway, though specific proficiency outcomes are not reported here.
Culture
This is where the school's numbers are most striking: 100% parent satisfaction, 100% parent-teacher trust, and 100% parent-principal trust, against a district parent-satisfaction average near 94%. Teachers rate instruction quality at 100% and principal trust at 90% — both above district norms — though only 23 teachers responded, so the staff picture is thinner than the family one. There were zero suspensions in the year reported, compared with a district suspension rate of about 0.4%.
Community
Every one of the 381 students enrolled here is Hispanic, and the school's diversity index reads zero — so by definition this is a culturally homogeneous student body rather than a diverse one. About 4% of students have IEPs, which is low for a Bronx high school and partly reflects the screened admissions process. The surrounding neighborhood is overwhelmingly renter-occupied (only 6.5% of households own), and the income profile makes clear the school serves a working-class community where most families earn close to or below the poverty line.
Neighborhood
University Heights (South)–Morris Heights is a high-poverty section of the western Bronx where more than a third of households live below the poverty line, median household income is just over $32,000, and only about 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. Homeownership is extremely low at 6.5% — most families here rent — and just 14% of households include children, meaning the school draws from a relatively small pool of school-age families in the immediate area. Despite those figures, the neighborhood is well-served by transit, which is the main reason working families stay rooted here.
The 4 train at 176th Street is about a four-minute walk, the 4 at Mt Eden Avenue is around seven minutes, and the B/D at 174–175 Streets is roughly eight minutes away.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 348 families responded (99% rate)
Programs & Activities
Admissions Demand
Allows students to understand mass media opportunities through a hands-on approach and develop career skills in video production, journalism, media arts, and technology, with internships in various media outlets.
Four year program provides students with computer literacy, maintenance and repair skills, knowledge of programming languages and the ability to solve technical problems.
This program offers proficiency in Cisco to take the Cisco Certified Networking Associate Exam (CCNA). Successful completion of this program prepares students to install computer connections, program routers, and maintain computer networks.
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
PTA Fundraising
Source: DOE Local Law 171 disclosure
Discipline
NYSED Student & Educator Database
Economic Need & Special Populations
How to get in, step by step
High school (9th grade)
High school is one citywide application, made in 8th grade. Academy for Language and Technology admits through 3 programs, and each one has its own admissions method:
- National Academy Foundation Computer NetworkingScreened
- National Academy Foundation Institute for Computer TechnologyScreened
- National Academy Foundation Media CommunicationsScreened
High school application
- Opened
- Tue, Oct 6
- Closes
- Fri, Dec 4
- Offers
- Wed, Mar 3
The DOE’s published dates.
- 1Apply on MySchools during the high school application, in 8th grade.
- 2Screened programs rank the 7th-grade core-course average, so last year's final grades are the ones that count.
- 3Rank programs in true preference order — the match places your child in the highest-ranked one that offers a seat.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Academy for Language and Technology a good school?
- On Motley, Academy for Language and Technology earns an overall rating of 80/100 — the average of the school's four-year graduation rate, the share of its students scoring college-ready (70+) on the English Regents, and its Regents completion rate, shown out of 100.
- What grades does Academy for Language and Technology serve?
- Academy for Language and Technology serves grades 9 to 12.
- How do students get into Academy for Language and Technology?
- Academy for Language and Technology is a screened school — it admits by application, ranking applicants on their course grades (4th grade for middle school, the 7th-grade core-course average for high school); a few schools add an assessment, writing sample, or interview.
- Is Academy for Language and Technology public, charter, or private?
- Academy for Language and Technology is a public school in NYC Community School District 9.
- What neighborhood is Academy for Language and Technology in?
- Academy for Language and Technology is in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx.