Friends' Central School

Friends' Central School
Address
Map
1101 City Ave

,
19096-3490

United States
Coordinates39°59′06″N 75°15′45″W / 39.98502°N 75.26261°W / 39.98502; -75.26261
Information
TypeIndependent secondary school
Religious affiliation(s)Christianity
DenominationQuakers
Established1845; 179 years ago (1845)
StatusOpen[1]
NCES School ID01195711[1]
Head of schoolBeth D. Johnson
Faculty116 (on an FTE basis)[1]
GradesN12[1]
GenderCoeducational[1]
Enrollment769[1] (2019-2020)
 • Pre-kindergarten36[1]
 • Kindergarten31[1]
 • Grade 135[1]
 • Grade 223[1]
 • Grade 332[1]
 • Grade 433[1]
 • Grade 535[1]
 • Grade 640[1]
 • Grade 758[1]
 • Grade 862[1]
 • Grade 979[1]
 • Grade 10101[1]
 • Grade 11103[1]
 • Grade 12101[1]
Student to teacher ratio6.3:1[1]
Campus typeSuburban[1]
Color(s)  Navy
  White
  Gray
Athletics conferenceFriends' Schools League
NicknamePhoenix
SAT average649 Math
669 Verbal
666 Writing
Annual tuition$41,990[2]
Nobel laureatesKarl Barry Sharpless
Websitefriendscentral.org

Friends' Central School (FCS) is a Quaker, independent, coeducational, college-preparatory day school for students in Nursery though grade 12. It is located on 41 acres across two campuses in Wynnewood, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.[3][4]

The school was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia, near the current location of the Philadelphia Mint. It had an enrollment of 769 students from nursery to grade 12 in 2019.

Informally known as "Friends' Central," the school encompasses three divisions: Lower School (nursery through 5th grades), Middle School (6th through 8th), and Upper School (9th through 12th). The Middle and Upper Schools share their campus, and the Lower School occupies its own site.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Friends Central School". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Affording FCS". Admissions. Friends' Central School. 2022–2023. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Friends' Central School - N-12 Quaker School - Philadelphia". Friendscentral.org. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Community Profile Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine." Lower Merion Township. Retrieved on April 30, 2014. (contains maps of Lower Merion).