Friends' Central School
Friends' Central School (FCS) is a Quaker school which educates students from nursery through grade 12. It is located in Wynnewood, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
| Friends' Central School | |
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| Address | |
1101 City Ave Wynnewood , Pennsylvania 19096-3490 United States | |
| Coordinates | 39.98502°N 75.26261°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent secondary school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christianity |
| Denomination | Quakers |
| Established | 1845 |
| Status | Open |
| NCES School ID | 01195711 |
| Head of school | Beth D. Johnson |
| Faculty | 116 (on an FTE basis) |
| Grades | N–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 769 (2019-2020) |
| • Pre-kindergarten | 36 |
| • Kindergarten | 31 |
| • Grade 1 | 35 |
| • Grade 2 | 23 |
| • Grade 3 | 32 |
| • Grade 4 | 33 |
| • Grade 5 | 35 |
| • Grade 6 | 40 |
| • Grade 7 | 58 |
| • Grade 8 | 62 |
| • Grade 9 | 79 |
| • Grade 10 | 101 |
| • Grade 11 | 103 |
| • Grade 12 | 101 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6.3:1 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Navy White Gray |
| Athletics conference | Friends' Schools League |
| Nickname | Phoenix |
| SAT average | 649 Math 669 Verbal 666 Writing |
| Annual tuition | $41,990 |
| Nobel laureates | Karl Barry Sharpless |
| Website | friendscentral |
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.
The school is widely known for the quality of its education, consistently as one of the top schools in the Philadelphia area.