Don't go to NSA unless you fit in to a certain group because you will not fit in there if you don't have a specific clique of people. The education there is the worst I've ever experienced. At NSA they experiment a lot on the kids by having too many student teachers and trying new policy's that can mess with a students sucess. The school might feel welcoming when you first visit it but truly it's a disaster. There are too many kids on drugs and that don't value there education. The teachers hired at that school are outrageous(threatening kids,knocking kids books off desk,snatching items out of student hands rudely and being lazy at teaching.) The only positive thing I have to say about the school is that if your upset people will ask about you and try to comfort you. If you just so happen to have the choice of going to MLK or NSA,please,please,please got to MLK unless you want to deal with so many bad teachers,a bad education,and drugs or if you value arts more than education. There are some good teachers but only a select few. If you want to do a lot of math or science you should definitely go to another school because at NSA a lot of teachers are fired so classes like Algebra 2 are taken out because there's no teacher to teach it. There are a lot of arts at the school such as a fun piano class with lots of pianos in the room but sadely the bad over powers the good at NSA. In addition, the kids at the school are very different and have some big and unique views on life witch is a negative to me because if I had a child,I'd never send her to NSA in fear that she could change for the worst and become rebellious and bad but instead to a religious school or a school like MLK that can offer you a scholarship and prepare you for college.