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When you begin with the belief that each person has a unique inner light, great things can happen.

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Our Doors Are Open

Teachers are our Superpower

Creative faculty offer a rich, relevant, and engaging program for all ages—one centered on curiosity, well-being, and joy.

Faculty & Staff Directory

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Learning is for Life

Students find their unique voices through infinite opportunities for discovery and inquiry, with age-appropriate freedoms to chart their own paths.

Academics

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The Power of Simplicity

Our community embraces silence, reflection, and listening as we learn from—and with—each other, bringing our Quaker testimonies to life.

A Quaker School

A Community of Changemakers

Alumni remain a central part of the GFS experience, mentoring students and sharing their talents as advocates, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists—changemakers of all kinds.

Alumni

A Quaker independent day school for Early Childhood through Grade 12

At Germantown Friends School, we bring together our values, our neighborhood, and our people to imagine a better world—and begin to bring it to life. Explore our divisions.

At a Glance

1,131

Students in Early Childhood - Grade 12

5:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

100%

Graduates attend a four-year college

80+

Student-led clubs and affinity groups

175

Friends Schools League athletic championship titles

90

Zip codes represented

GFS News & Noteworthy

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Members of GFS Community Engagement Club smiling at a table in the dining hall with members of the Whosever Gospel Mission

GFS Philly Service Award: Culinary Skills for Life

The GFS Community Engagement Club's 2025-26 Philly Service Award project is a series of workshops they organized with the Dining Services team for men at the Whosoever Gospel Mission. These were designed to equip participants with the necessary skills and materials to continue cooking healthy, low-cost meals for themselves.

Members of the GFS Black Student Union wear hoodies in solidarity with Treyvon Martin and raise their fists up in protest of continued racial injustice.

Honoring Black Legacies and Celebrating Black Excellence: Black History Month at GFS

This year’s Black History Month was full of celebratory gatherings, workshops, programs, and assemblies, and opportunities to uplift Black historical figures.

Besting the Regional Brain Bee

Junior Muyan Liu ’27 recently earned the top spot at the Northeastern Pennsylvania Brain Bee. She’ll compete in the USA National Brain Bee competition at the University of California, Irvine in April.

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Widening the Lens

An alumnus' donation of rare vintage cameras is expanding creative possibilities in GFS' photography classes.

Read more about Widening the Lens

Varsity Squash Wins Div. III Girls National Championship

Read a full recap of of the GFS Girls Varsity Squash Team's thrilling National Championship run. Everyone contributed: freshmen delivered under pressure, while veterans steadied the ship. By the end of the weekend, that collective faith proved unstoppable.

The GFS Middle School MathCounts team holding their trophies at the Philadelphia competition.

GFS Middle School Team Takes Second Place at Philadelphia MathCounts Competition

Throughout the year, GFS students test their talents in a variety of competitions, earning awards and recognition while contributing to the wider community of thinkers and creators. One example is Philadelphia MathCounts, where the GFS Middle School team won second place and a sixth grader took first place this year!

Engineered for Success: GFS' Upper School Robotics Team Performs Well at Regional Competitions

The GFS Upper School Robotics team has entered two competitions so far this year at Great Valley and Norristown High Schools. At both, they tried new strategies, took some risks, and held their own against tough competitors.

GFS Debate Team Scores High at the Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament

Congrats to the GFS Upper School Debate Club on a strong showing at the prestigious Harvard National Speech and Debate Tournament. Two seniors, Andrew Li and Luke Zhong, took second place out of thousands of students!

GFS sixth graders running in a gymnasium as part of their Phys Ed. Academic Intensive

Academic Intensives: Deep Dives in Middle School

GFS' Middle School Academic Intensives are month-long deep dives, which run twice a year in between sports seasons. Each course exposes students to a variety of subjects and different ways of learning, and the topics are built from scratch each year.