Hawthorn in the Media

Eric Scroggins, Roxana High School graduate, spearheads the Opportunity Trust nonprofit to provide millions to St. Louis schools.

Charter school offers rigorous STEM curriculum to girls

Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls partners with World Wide Technology to help students find solutions to community problems.

Read about how the pace is slowing down for Charter Schools wishing to open their doors in St. Louis and why.

TFA Alumna and Hawthorn teacher Andrea Woods is a recent recipient of the 2017 PBS Digintal Innovators Award

A look at charter schools in Missouri

7th grade Hawthorn students deliver Care Bear Baskets to Gateway 180, local homeless shelter.

Hawthorn's STEM focused curriculum was featured in a news segment by KMOV Channel 4 on October 24, 2016.

Ann Tisch, founder of the Young Women's Leadership Network, reflects on the past 20 years and looks to future. From starting the first Young Women's Leadership School and all the backlash that came with opening an all girls school to opening its newest affiliate in Wilmington, NC, Ann Tisch knows the work is still as relevant today as it was then.

The YWLN schools in New York and across the country offer young women a high quality college prep education and a path out of poverty.

Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, an affiliate of the Young Women's Leadership Network, graduated its first class of young women.

Stephanie Zeilenga wrote a piece for Town & Style about Hawthorn and what we hope to accomplish through our STEM-focused education, real-world applications to classroom lessons, and support of our girls to become strong leaders.

Maurice Ashley, the first black chess grandmaster, is inducted into the Chess Hall of Fame and makes it his mission to break down barriers of circumstance for kids of color, including launching a chess club program at Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls.

Being the principal of a new school comes with a never-ending list of things to do. On any given day, Dr. Wiens needs to communicate with teachers, students, and parents, providing each group with the support they need to create the best learning environment possible. Read this article about how the Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls empowers the next generation of leaders with the use of technology and other strategies for success.

School is closed on 2/24 due to inclement weather.

Prospective Teacher Meet and Greet Tonight

Prospective Teacher Meet and Greet, Feb. 11

Hawthorn Family Pancake Breakfast

Open House

School Closed January 20

Girls4Tech Workshop by Mastercard, 1/22

Our January Board Meeting has been cancelled.

Winter Break work packets

Hawthorn Leadership School opens as Missouri's only public girls' school

All girls STEM school opens for first day of school

Girls make history on first day at Hawthorn, Missouri’s first all-girls charter school

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Eight new charter schools open this school year in St. Louis city, with one focusing on science and technology for girls. Mayor Francis Slay kicked off the school year at Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls.

Aug. 12, 2015 – Mayor Francis Slay speaks to students at Hawthorn Leadership School in north St. Louis, the first all-girls public STEM school in Missouri (KMOX/Brett Blume)

This month, sixth and seventh graders begin classes at Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, the first single-sex STEM public school in St. Louis...

Imagine a hallway filled with girls chatting excitedly as they prepare for class, all dressed in matching uniforms, their hair thrown into ponytails without much thought. There are no boys to impress or distract; the focus is on the day’s science and engineering classes, or after-school robotics club.

Program puts the ‘E’ in STEM education with innovative engineering curriculum

Shirley Washington, on The Pulse of St. Louis, takes a closer look at Hawthorn, its curriculum and its mission as she interviews four important members of the Hawthorn Community. Mary Stillman (Founder), Dr. Robyn Wiens (Principal), Jaz Humphries (Student), and Michele Humphries (Parent)

Gateway to Innovation, the premier annual conference for regional IT professionals, presented cash awards to six non-profit and educational organizations supporting technology initiatives during a special event hosted by the St. Louis Regional Chamber. Gateway to Innovation will be attended by more than 1,300 regional IT professionals April 29, 2015 at America’s Center Convention Complex in downtown St. Louis.

Danforth and Stillman have set out to make a difference by opening their own schools. The pair is making investments of time and money in St. Louis education — and driving other business leaders to do the same. Danforth, a graduate of St. Louis Country Day School, and Stillman, a graduate of Holton Arms School for Girls in Bethesda, Maryland, know the value of a good education.

In just a few months, the halls of an old St. Louis school building will once again ring with the sound of children's voices. Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls is set to open this fall at the corner of North Kingshighway & Cote Brilliante.

The expansion is one of eight new charter schools — tuition-free, public schools run independently of public district control — that are slated to open this fall. If students fill the 2,000 extra seats, St. Louis’ charter schools could reach a record enrollment of more than 11,700 students.

It was the largest charter school admissions fair to date in St. Louis, where eight new independent public schools are expected to open this fall: four elementary, two middle and one high school, plus an all-girls middle and high school that will focus on science, technology, engineering and math education.

Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls has purchased an approximately 57,000-square-foot building at 1901 N. Kingshighway Blvd., the site of a former Imagine charter school, for $1.75 million.

Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls plans to debut its college preparatory school this fall at the building at opened in 1925 as the McBride High School.

Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis, has set its sights on an old school building in the Kingsway West neighborhood as the spot for Missouri’s first, single-gender public school.

Nikki Doughty, MSW’14, worked in politics and education in Atlanta and St. Louis for 10 years before she hit a ceiling. “I had practical experience, but I needed further academic and professional training to achieve my goal to improve urban education,” she says. “After putting myself through undergraduate and graduate school earlier, I knew I couldn’t afford further education without financial support. A scholarship to the Brown School changed my life.”

The St. Louis Regional Business Council (RBC) is pleased to announce $110,000 in grants to thirty worthy organizations throughout the region. These grants, from the It’s Our Region Fund, reflect the RBC’s philanthropic commitment to improve the quality of life for all St. Louisans.

The Missouri State Board of Education unanimously approved Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls’ application to operate as a charter public school

Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls is excited to announce the selection of Robyn Viloria Wiens, Ed.D., as the school’s founding principal.

Mary Danforth Stillman plans to open an all-girls charter school in north or central St. Louis in August 2015. Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, which will eventually enroll 500 girls, would be the first of its kind in the region and state, said Stillman, daughter of Sen. John Danforth and niece of former Washington University Chancellor William H. Danforth.

St. Louis Public Radio details how Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls will be the first college preparatory charter school of its kind in St. Louis.

Partnership is part of university’s broad plan to make higher education more accessible to students from diverse backgrounds

In this message, Chancellor Wrighton details educational goals for the University, including the establishment of Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls.