The Academy for Business & Technology elementary school is able to provide a quality educational program to all of its students by combining committed, dedicated and highly qualified teachers and instructors with a sound, mastery-based curriculum -- all in a clean, safe, caring environment. The result is a learning community where students are important and challenged to perform to their greatest potential. ABTE's individualized instruction philosophy holds that students perform best in a regular classroom setting.

ABTE is proud to have been recognized by the Michigan Department of Education as being "a charter school achieving a unique degree of academic success", despite having a significant percentage of economically disadvantaged students (Betty Underwood, Director, Office of School Improvement, October 10, 2008).

ABTE uses the highly regarded Kent County Collaborative Core Curriculum (KC4), which is aligned with Michigan standards and grade-level expectations in the core subject areas of English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. All students also receive instruction in a foreign language (French), physical education, health and art. Upper grades receive drug and alcohol prevention education. Emphasis has been placed to improve reading skills (with the purchase of class sets of leveled reading books) and student writing ability (with the adoption of the WriteSteps program).