Friends Select School draws its identity from its 300-year old Quaker heritage and from its Center City location.
The school offers a challenging, college-preparatory academic program to a pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade, diverse, coed student population. It offers a full complement of athletic, art and community service options. The school's intentional, sequential curriculum is notable for its emphasis on the skills of research, writing, listening, and oral and visual presentation, and a commitment to interactive learning in a city-wide classroom.
Friends Select is both rigorous and nurturing; focused on intellectual—rather than rote—learning, yet committed to skill development; comprehensive in program though small in relative size; and attentive to the individual as well as to the community. The school blends the best of what is tradiional with the best of what is current. It thrives within the dynamic of these opposites to create a distinctive environment.