The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens

Young Women's Leadership School of Queens
Looking from 87th Road
Address

150-91 87th Road Jamaica, Queens , New York United States
Coordinates	40°42′30″N 73°48′15″W / 40.7083°N 73.8042°W / 40.7083; -73.8042
Information
Type	Public middle school and high school
Principal	Mala Panday
Grades	6–12

The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens (TYWLS) is a public girls' high school and middle school located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.^[1] The school is administered by the New York City Department of Education. Since 2013 Mala Panday has been the principal and the assistant principals are Jennifer Pineda and George Díaz. The school has Advisory, a class for individual talking and sharing feelings. In this class, students are free to speak their minds confidentially. In addition to the state required course load, TYWLS of Queens also offers multiple advanced placement (AP) courses as well as an array of after school clubs.

The school is located on 87th Road near Parsons Boulevard and Hillside Avenue, in the former Jamaica Jewish Center building.^[1]^[2]^[3] The building was built in 1928,^[4] and renovated in 1998 in order to convert it into a school building.^[2]

There are four other schools in New York City with the title Young Women's Leadership School, in Harlem, Brooklyn, Astoria, and the Bronx. The school in Harlem is the charter school.^[1]

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References

^ ^a ^b ^c "2016 New York City High School Directory" (PDF). schools.nyc.gov. New York City Department of Education. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 8, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "NYC Department of Education Building Condition Assessment Survey 2015-2016: Young Women's Leadership School - Queens" (PDF). New York City Department of Education. October 26, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
^ Kramer, Adam (July 11, 2002). "Group puts together Jewish heritage trail". TimesLedger. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
^ "Queens Art Deco Registry & Map". Art Deco Society of New York.

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Jamaica

Queens, New York City

Green spaces

Education

Religion

Culture

Other buildings/
structures

Transportation

Subway stations	169th Street Jamaica–179th Street Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer Jamaica–Van Wyck Parsons Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport
Other stations	165th Street Bus Terminal Hillside Facility Jamaica Locust Manor St. Albans
Former stations	160th Street 168th Street Cedar Manor Metropolitan Avenue Queens Boulevard Rockaway Junction Sutphin Boulevard Union Hall Street

Geography

Related areas

See also: Queens Community Board 12

Education in Queens

Public schools

Charter schools

Closed	Beach Channel HS Andrew Jackson HS Jamaica HS Far Rockaway HS Springfield Gardens HS

Private schools

Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn schools

Other

Moved	Japanese School of New York (to Yonkers, NY and then Greenwich, CT)

Colleges and universities

CUNY School of Law
Queens College
St. John's University Queens Campus
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Vaughn College

Queens Public Library

branches
- Children's Library Discovery Center

Weekend education

Japanese Weekend School of New York

This list is incomplete.
See also: Queens Memory Project

Girls' schools in New York City

Public girls' schools

Young Women's Leadership, Brooklyn
Urban Assembly Inst.of Math and Science (Brooklyn)
Urban Assembly Sch. of Business (Manhattan)
Young Women's Leadership Sch. of East Harlem (Manhattan)
Young Women's Leadership Sch., Astoria (Queens)
Young Women's Leadership Sch. of Queens (Queens)
Excellence Girls Charter

Became coed, closed	Girls' Commercial
Closed	Wadleigh HS for Girls

Private girls' schools

Manhattan	Brearley Cathedral HS Chapin Convent of the Sacred Heart Dominican Acad. Hewitt Manhattan HS for Girls Marymount Sch. of New York Nightingale-Bamford Notre Dame Spence St. Jean Baptiste HS St. Vincent Ferrer HS
Brooklyn	Beth Jacob HS Beth Rivkah B’nos Leah Prospect Park Yeshiva B’nos Yisroel HS for Girls Fontbonne Hall Acad. Merkaz Bnos HS Shulamith Sch. for Girls of Brooklyn Soille Bais Yaakov HS Saint Saviour HS of Brooklyn Tomer Devora HS for Girls Yeshivat Shaare Torah Girls MS
Queens	Mary Louis Acad. Shevach HS St. Agnes Academic HS Torah Acad. HS for Girls Yeshiva Univ. HS for Girls
Bronx	Acad. of Mount St. Ursula Preston HS St. Barnabas HS St. Catherine Acad. St. Raymond Acad.
Staten Island	Notre Dame Acad. St. John Villa Acad. St. Joseph Hill Acad.
Became coed	Moore Catholic HS (Staten Island) St. Joseph by the Sea HS (Staten Island)
Closed	Aquinas HS (The Bronx) Bais Yaakov Acad. (Queens) Catherine McAuley HS (Brooklyn) Dominican Commercial High School (Queens) Mother Cabrini HS (Manhattan) St. Joseph HS (Brooklyn) St. Michael Acad. (Manhattan) Stella Maris HS (Queens) St. Peter's HS for Girls (Staten Island) St. Pius V High School (The Bronx) Bishop Kearney HS (Brooklyn)