FDA Dual Enrollment/Advanced Placement Program offers students the opportunity to take college courses simultaneously while in high school. Through our partnerships with SUNY Old Westbury and Syracuse University, students in the FDA Dual Enrollment/Advanced Placement Program begin their course work in Grade 9 with either AP Human Geography or Computer Science depending upon their interest in Humanities or the Sciences. As they progress, students will have advanced class choices from Gender Studies with Syracuse University to Black Studies with SUNY Old Westbury. In addition, we offer students accepted to the FDA Dual Enrollment/Advanced Placement Program courses with the College Board in AP Biology and AP World History among others.

This program will prepare students for college studies and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine. Students will have access to elective courses such as Robotics, Aeronautics/Aviation, Anatomy & Physiology, and Forensic Science. Students are expected to take a minimum of two AP or CUNY College Now courses for which they are eligible and may include AP Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP Physics.

FDA Harlem Samba is taught by internationally renowned educator and musician, Dr. Dana Monteiro. Through our partnerships with samba schools internationally, Harlem Samba students will have the opportunity to take Samba during their entire high school career. In addition, students accepted to the Harlem Samba Program will take Introduction to Percussion, World Percussion, and Sound Engineering.

FDA World Language Program offers students accepted to the program the opportunity to master two of the following languages: Japanese, Italian, French and Spanish. Beginning in their freshman year, students will choose two beginning language courses and continue until graduation upon completion of the AP Foreign Language Exam.