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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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