School Performance
Graduation Rate: 100% (at the end of the school year before last, the percent of students who graduated "on time" by earning a diploma four years after they entered 9th grade).
Daily Attendance Rate: 94% of the school's students in the school year before last.
Percentage of Students Enough Variety: 88% students feel that this school offers a wide enough variety of programs, classes, and activities to keep them interested in school.
College Career Rate: 92.000002% of students enroll in college or career programs within 6 months.
Percentage of Students Safe: 94% students feel safe in the hallways, bathrooms, locker room and cafeteria. (Student opinions on school safety, as reported on the NYC School Survey.)
Programs offered
Program 1: The Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria
Code: Q56A
Program description: Our school includes advisory, rigorous STEM, AP offerings, humanities, and arts (drama, theater, technology, digital media, film, robotics, and computer programming). We also provide afterschool enrichment including sports, tutoring, and dance. The College Bound Initiative (CBI) provides a full-time CBI college counselor who guides each student through the college application process through visits and trips.
Interest: Humanities & Interdisciplinary
Method: Ed. Opt.
Seats 9 GE: 68
Grade 9 GE filled flag: Y
Grade 9 GE applicants: 505
Grade 9 GE applicants per seat: 7
Seats 9 SWD: 13
Grade 9 SWD filled flag: Y
Grade 9 SWD applicants: 63
Grade 9 SWD applicants per seat: 5
Eligibility: Open only to Female-Identified students
Seats 10: 1
Admissions priority 1: Priority to continuing 8th graders
Admissions priority 2: Then to Queens students or residents
Admissions priority 3: Then to New York City residents
Activities
Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular activities and clubs offered by the school that do not fall under one of the Sports categories (PSAL Sports or School Sports): Drama Club, Mathletes Team, GSA (Gender and Sexuality Alliance), Digital Dance, Cultures of Thinking (create SMART Goals), Asian Cultural Club
PSAL Sports Boys
Male PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: No data
PSAL Sports Girls
Female PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: Basketball, Bowling, Outdoor Track, Soccer, Softball, Table Tennis, Volleyball
PSAL Sports Coed
Co-ed PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: No data
School Sports
Sports offered by the school outside PSAL (Public School Athletics League): No data
Flag for female only school: 1
Flag for male only school: No data
Other info
Total students: 578
Start time: 8:00am
End time: 2:30pm
Final grades: 6 to 12
Language classes: Spanish
Advancedplacement courses: AP Calculus AB, AP Psychology, AP Computer Science Principles, AP English Language and Composition, AP World History: Modern, AP Human Geography, AP Environmental Science, AP English Literature and Composition
Additional info: 10th Grade Seats Available,Career and Technical Education (CTE),College Trips,Dress Code,Extended Day Tutoring,Internships Available,Online Grading System,Orientation,Summer Bridge,Summer Internships,Summer Orientation,Uniform
School accessibility description: Partially Accessible
Flag for schools that offer 10th grade seats: Y
More info
Borough: Queens
NTA: Old Astoria
Neighborhood: Old Astoria
School Number: Q739
Community board: 401
Council district: 22
Census tract: 69
BIN: 4440035
BBL: 4005420008
About Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria (TYWLS)
Contacts
Address: 23-15 Newtown Avenue, Astoria NY 11102 (40.770769,-73.92383)
Latitude: 40.771215
Longitude: -73.924591
Phone number: 718-267-2839
Fax number: 718-728-0218
School email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.tywls-astoria.org/
Subway lines near the school: N, W to 30th Ave
Bus lines near the school: M60-SBS, Q100, Q102, Q103, Q18, Q19, Q69
Hotels near Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria (TYWLS)
Students engage in an academically rigorous college prep course of study, with the opportunity to take Advanced Placement and College Now courses.
Twenty-first century skills are embedded into a mastery based approach to grading with technology infused courses and a project based mindset.
Eligible students participate in focused pathways such as Advanced Placement For All, and Algebra For All, Computer Science For All ( Software Engineering), Robotics and Digital Media.
Mid-Year intensive courses that provide real-world learning and application, collaborative group work, and project-based instruction
Electives include Filmmaking, Drama, Musical Theater, Game Design, and Visual Art.