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This is about 4 years old Tech is now behind Stuy, but they are close.

“MYFOXNY.COM - This is the first year that U.S. News and World Report has ranked science and math high schools. Some schools in New York City got some great news: They are among the best in the nation.

Staten Island Technical High School ranked No. 13.

The principal told Fox 5 that on Tuesday morning he didn’t even know the rankings were out yet; the custodian told him.

Teachers, students, and excited and happy to share what’s behind of their successful school.

You need to score well on a test to get into Staten Island Tech, and once you do, the chance of going to a four-year college is 100 percent. But that is not what put this school on a national best list. That would be their AP scores. There are 905 AP class seats for the 1,100-student school. If you look on the list hung in the hallway, you’ll see 90 percent of the kids get scores of 3 or higher.

Staten Island Teach beat out its peers in the rankings: Stuyvesant came in 18th, Brooklyn Tech was 50th, and Bronx Science was 51st.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott gave Staten Island Tech a big congrats.

Fox 5 found tons of kids staying after school to study for the AP tests or building their own robots.

Students study before school and at lunch. Parents are heavily involved. The PTA president said that collaboration helps.

The school placed an emphasis on the AP tests as it has grown over the past four years.

The demographics of this school: 90 percent are from Staten Island. Almost 75 percent are white, about 20 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic, and 2 percent black.”