The Young Women's Leadership School in New York City

Written By H. Pike Oliver

This is the school where son Paul Oliver teaches in East Harlem, Manhattan. It is a New York City public school that serves about 475 young women in 6th through 12th grade.

According to the school website, “The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem (TYWLS) opened in 1996 as the first school in a national network of excellent all-girls college prep schools. TYWLS nurtures the intellectual curiosity and creativity of young women by supporting the 'whole girl' in order to maximize academic achievement, social emotional well-being, and post-secondary success”.

During the most recent year for which data is available from the National Center for education statistics, the school had 474 students, all of whom were female. The largest racial/ethic group representations were Black and Hispanic—122 and 273 students respectively. The student/teacher ratio is 15:1.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics: https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&ID=360007902919. Accessed on 26 November 2021.

The school is supported by the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), which promotes college access and financial aid options for every student. There is a full-time college counselor on staff who guides students and parents through the process of visiting and choosing colleges, applying to college, and applying for financial aid. The school boasts near perfect graduation and college acceptance rates.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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