Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corp.
The High School includes an Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Program (JROTC).
The BullDog Battalion, JROTC Program, was first established in 2002. The School's Army JROTC, "Bulldog Battalion"s drill team Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty are both National High School level Champions in the National High School Drill Team Championships. The JROTC was able to achieve an honor unit with distinction award and has since held that achievement.
The Drill Team have been invited to many events such as escorting Mayor Bloomberg during and Color Guard team for Giants games in the past. The most notable event they participated, was in 2008, when Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty, and both teams were chosen over all the schools in the nation by Ashanti to perform with her and Ja Rule on Good Morning America.
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