Academic Intervention Services are classes that are required for students who do not successfully pass a Regents examination or who have attained a level 1 or a level 2 on an eighth grade state exam. The school schedules these students to attend small-group sessions every other day in addition to their regular classes. The State Education Department mandates these programs and the school must add them to a student's schedule. Once a student passes the Regents exam, the guidance counselor will remove the AIS class from the student's schedule.