Albert D Holland School of Technology is the first high school in the state of Massachusetts to exit the Turnaround status. It offers small unique communities identified as academies for each grade level. Personalized learning in longer teaching blocks with specialized academies leads to strong relations between students and staff. Solid partnerships support academic and enrichment programs. City Year Corps members provide near-peer mentoring. 

Innovative teaching practices are in place.  Curriculum and training by John Hopkins University and Diploma now. Student learning is optimized in classes with fewer students with more than one adult in most cases.

UMass Boston offers Urban Scholars and Project Reach programs, Benjamin Franklin, Bunker Hill and Roxbury Community Colleges also provide our students with afterschool learning opportunities, including dual enrollment. Our new partnership with Verizon offers SAT prep support in a mobile lab using online software and tutors from Northeastern University. The Red & Blue foundation operates a student center that provides academic support to our athletes during and beyond school hours. Private Industry Council and Quantum Opportunities work with students around youth development strategies and practices around job-based skills and placement. Our partnerships with Boston College, School of Mental Health and Simmons College affords us the means to provide counseling services to all students in an effort to be holistic in our practice.

The school offers transformation opportunities for students, including travel to other states and countries, retreats and overnight camping trips.

What makes our school special

• Rigorous academic program: school-wide instructional focus on literacy across the curriculum using AVID strategies
• State-of-the-art facilities
• Advanced Placement courses in statistics, environment science,  English literature & composition, and U.S. history
• Above-average attendance among high schools
• PULSE, Debate Team, BARK Room, Credit Recovery, and after school programs including SAT and MCAS test preparation
• College and Career Center from the Boston Private Industry Council with a full-time career specialist
• Family-friendly environment, with a Family Center staffed with a coordinator to support school-parent partnerships, parent information, and outreach
• Student support services: guidance, health center, counseling, adolescent parenting, and financial aid assistance
• Technology pathway supported by Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
• Active partnership with UMass Boston, providing Urban Scholars and Project Reach
• Active partnership with Quincy College and Regis College to create a nursing pathway
• Active partnership with Boston Collegiate Charter and Cristo Rey Boston

After school programs

• Student government, NSBE, literary magazine, Robotics & Machine Science Club, SAT and MCAS classes, PULSE, credit recovery, Boston Scholar Athletes, championship athletics, cheerleading, college & career support, community learning initiative partnership with Grove Hall Branch Library and the Boston Center for Youth and Families