M507 Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology

M507 Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology is a secondary school in New York, NY. It is a small public high school where students study software engineering, app development, IT systems, digital design, and animation. The school's mission centers on engaging students through inventive problem-solving that integrates technology with habits of mind that prepare them for college and careers, with the aim of graduating innovative thinkers and technicians able to apply technology across a variety of fields. The school organizes its technology instruction into three pathways. The Software Engineering Pathway prepares students for careers in software engineering and programming, with coursework in Scratch, Python, and Java, along with robotics, mathematics, advanced computer science, web design, entrepreneurship, and mobile application development. The school is located at 439 W 49th St, on West 49th Street near its intersection with 9th Avenue. The Graphics Campus and the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School are both within a short walk, and MiDoctor Urgent Care is about a tenth of a mile away. West 50th Street runs roughly a tenth of a mile from the school. The school's staff includes a principal, an assistant principal, grade-level counselors for ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades, a college director, a college support staff member, a social worker for student life, and teachers across physical education, English, science, special education, history, ESL, technology, art, earth science, mathematics, social studies, and foreign language, supported by paraprofessionals, a parent coordinator, and a school aide.