The Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology uses technology to engage students and prepare them for college.  Students will focus in one of three career fields: Digital Animation and Web Design, Computer and Information Technology, or Health Information Technology.  One of more than 20 schools created and run by the nonprofit Urban Assembly, the school receives funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Gateway plans to replicate the standards of other Urban Assembly schools, most of which have achieved a good record of graduating students in four years with high college acceptance rates.  Learning will focus on problem solving, research, communication, interpretation, and academic management. Teachers will meet students wherever they are and help them “unlock the mysteries of success,” according to founding Principal April McKoy.

McKoy, who was a social studies teacher at Brooklyn College Academy and an assistant principal at Bushwick Community High School, says that this school is ideal for techies, wannabe techies, problem solvers, and creative thinkers. 

The school, which will be housed inside the Graphics Educational Campus along with the High School of Graphic Communication Arts and the Business of Sports School has established partnerships with various organizations which will provide help in developing curriculum and internships for seniors. Organizations include WNET Channel 13, The Brooklyn Experimental Media Center of New York PolyTech University, The Hospital for Special Surgery, and  Iridescent Learning.

Admissions: Priority to Manhattan students or residents who attend an information session or fair.  (Aryn Bloodworth, February 2011)