The study seeks to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at the secondary high school level, including senior high school, vocational high school, and Islamic senior high school in Islamic boarding schools; assessing the resilience of senior high schools (senior high school, vocational high school, and Islamic senior high school) in Islamic boarding schools in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic; exploring Nyai and female leaders in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Islamic boarding schools; and, detecting the vulnerability of Islamic boarding schools in the pandemic crisis, exposed and exploited by radical views and extremist thinking.