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!