All students participate in internships two to three days each week.

Paired with an experienced mentor, students learn by experience in the workplace. 

Yes, students have a single advisory throughout their time at City-As-School to explore the credits they need to graduate. This is achieved by both taking small seminars and participating in internships.

As a Consortium School, we don’t make Regents tests a requirement for our students. Instead, you will be working on Portfolios. Portfolio are collections of personalized projects you produce and present to a board of teachers, who grade them. Portfolios act as an alternative to test taking and are in the Science, Math, Social Studies, and English categories.

City As School prides itself in handling the wellbeing of its students. We offer aid in the form of substance abuse counseling (sapis) college and career counseling, (caco) and general guidance counseling.

At City-As-School, students build their own schedules. With help from faculty, you’ll see how many credits you need to graduate, and what classes and internships you can take to help you earn them. Ultimately though, you have the final say of any decisions.

Students attend Monday through Friday. Usually from 9-3 (on Fridays, 10-3). Students attend internships for up to 12 hours a week either Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Tuesday, Thursday.

Our internship sites are located all throughout New York City, so you have the best chance of finding a site that best suits you, but is also convenient to travel to.

Interns are Junior and Senior high school students who receive direct supervision and extensive mentoring at their internships. A rubric for success that doubles as a ‘pledge’ is signed by both student interns and mentors at the beginning of the internship to ensure the objective of the internship is clear.

Internships are eight weeks per cycle. Interns attend three times a week for a total of 12 hours on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or twice a week for a total of eight hours on Tuesday and Thursday.