Friends Select School
| Friends Select School | |
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17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA United States |
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| Type | Private School |
| Motto |
Integrum Vitae "The Whole of Life" |
| Established | 1833 |
| Head of school | Michael Gary |
| Faculty | 79 |
| Grades | PreK-12 |
| Number of students | 570 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10:1 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Brown and Gold |
| Mascot | Falcon |
| Affiliation | Friends School League |
| Website | www.friends-select.org |
Coordinates: 39°57′23″N 75°10′02″W / 39.9564°N 75.1671°W
Friends Select School (FSS) is a college-preparatory, Quaker school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade located at 1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the intersection of Cherry and N. 17th Streets in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Friends (Quaker) education dating to 1689, Friends Select, which was founded in 1833, has been located on this site since 1885. The current building, which includes an office building owned by the school, was built in 1967-69. An adjacent campus building is located across the street at 1700 Race Street (Friends Select @ 1700). The Race Street Meetinghouse, built in 1856, is used by students and faculty for Meeting for Worship each Wednesday. The school is under the care of both the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia at 4th & Arch (held at the Arch Street Meeting House). The school is currently governed by a board of trustees divided equally between the two monthly meetings that oversee the school.
Friends Select School, FSS, traces its history to the founding of the first Friends school managed directly by the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia in 1689. Friends Select has existed in its current form since 1833 and has been at its present location since 1885. In 1832, a committee was appointed to set up two select schools. In January 1833, a Select School for Boys opened in the meetinghouse on Orange Street and a Select School for Girls opened in the meeting house on Twelfth Street. In 1885, a new school building on Sixteenth Street above Arch was nearing completion with a capacity for 60 scholars of each sex in the upper schools, and of twenty in each of the Primaries. In 1886, the boys' select school and the girls' select school moved to Sixteenth and Cherry (same location as Seventeenth and Parkway - in 1886 the Parkway had not been constructed).
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