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Welcome, New OWLs! Congratulations on your acceptance into Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy. We are anxiously awaiting your arrival. Before August arrives, we want you to stay connected to school updates and news. Please review the helpful notes below to support your preparation for entry. Simply click on a topic and review the information in the drop-down information.
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What is WYWLA?
WYWLA is our commonly used acronym for our school. Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy.
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Where is WYWLA?
Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy is located on the historic Governor Morehead's Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our geographic address is 303 Ashe Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27606. The main office is located in Lineberry Hall.
If you enter off Ashe Avenue into the Main Entrance (North Entrance), Lineberry hall is the largest building facing you as you drive down the hill. WYWLA shares this building with Governor Morehead's students and staff. We are located in the basement. When walking up to the building, we are located around the side walkway. You can see our windchimes from the pavement. Once you walk around the side, you will see our school sign.
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Where do I park?
Parking varies based on the time of your arrival.
During the school day, All parents and visitors must park in a visitor spot or WCPSS-marked space.
After 4:30 pm: Parents and visitors may park in any open space near Lineberry Hall.
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How do I know if I am assigned to WYWLA?
If you are assigned to WYWLA, your SchoolMint account should show as assigned or offered. Your PowerSchool account should show our school name for your child's next school assignment.
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What if I am on a waitlist?
If you are on the waitlist, we encourage you to remain on the list. Our school may have openings that come about as time goes on and families decide on various things for their children.
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Who assigns students to your school?
Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy is a Wake County Public School. All assignments to our school are made by Wake County Public School's Student Assignment Office. We do not make assignments at the school, all assignments come through Student Assignment Office.
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How will my child get to school?
As a member of WCPSS, our students utilize WCPSS Transportation. As a magnet school, we utilize express busing options available to magnet students. Students will ride a connector bus from their bus stop to South East Raleigh High School. One at South East Raleigh High School, they will get on a bus that transports them to Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy. They will repeat this process in the reverse process at dismissal.
We also have a large carpool population. Our families often carpool share as well. Over the summer, we will offer a carpool share spreadsheet for you to connect with other families who may live in the same geographic location. Carpool users must use a different entrance. Carpool enters off Western Boulevard.
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Tours
Our school offers tours from September to December, during the application window. After this window closes, we do not offer new family tours.
We will not provide tours during our new family night, as this event is after school and our students will not be in session. If you were not able to tour our school prior to applying, please email our Magnet Coordinator, Sharon Cuffee at scuffee@wcpss.net. She will host a special
tour for new families who have not toured our campus. This tour will be Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at
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Virtual Welcome Night 3/8/2023
We hosted a Virtual Welcome Night for new families on March 8, 2023.
You can view this session here: Virtual Welcome Night.
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New Family Connections
We will periodically email new families. In order to ensure you receive these emails, please connect with the data manager at your current school. We are unable to add emails to PowerSchool for new families until July 1, 2023. You can always check our website for updates as well. We will include new family emails on this page as well. Please use the menu bar on the right to see New Family Emails.
