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k through Life

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

1,125

Students enrolled in 2025-26 (Early Childhood through Grade 12)

5:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

100%

Graduates attend a four-year college

80+

Student-led clubs and affinity groups

179

Friends Schools League athletic championship titles

90

Zip codes represented

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