The Academy of American Studies is a selective public high school in Long Island City, Queens, New York, which was founded in 1996 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. With roughly 700 students, it is one of the smallest high schools in New York City. Located on the western end of Queens (just east of Manhattan), the school normally attracts students from either of these two boroughs. The Academy is not to be confused with the High School of American Studies at Lehman College, a specialized high school in the Bronx.