City Partnerships

As the only pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade independent school and the only Quaker school in Center City Philadelphia, Friends Select provides a unique and enviable learning environment. The school sits on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in the heart of Center City. Having renewed its commitment to to remain and participate fully in the life of the city, Friends Select provides a service to its students, as well as to city residents and commuters, that is unrivaled in this metropolitan area.

At the heart of the academic program is a commitment to enriching the standard college preparatory curriculum through an intentional, sequential, articulated program of research, writing and oral and visual presentation. Combine this with a full range of reciprocal relationships with academic, historic and cultural institutions in Center City, and the result is an uncommon academic richness and diversity.

Stop by. Visit often. Feel the energy. And celebrate, as the school community does, the very heart of learning in Center City Philadelphia!

 

The School and the City

Academy of Music

Academy of Natural Sciences

African American Museum

American Friends Service Committee

Artists' House

Atwater Kent Museum

Carpenter's Hall

City Hall

Chinatown

Curtis Institute of Music

Fabric Workshop

Fairmount Park

Franklin Institute Science Museum

Free Library of Philadelphia

Independence Hall

Japanese House and Garden

Joseph Fox Bookshop

Kelly Drive Sculpture Garden

Kimmel Center

Lemon Hill

Liberty Place

MANNA

Moore College of Art and Design

Mutter Museum

Painted Bride

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Senior Center

Philadelphia Zoo

PSFS Building

Reading Terminal

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Temple Music Prep

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

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