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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.

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

 

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

 

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.

At a Glance

1,129

Students in Early Childhood - Grade 12

5:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

100%

Graduates attend a four-year college

70+

Student-led clubs and affinity groups

159

Friends Schools League athletic championship titles

13

National Merit Scholars, 2014-20

80+

Zip codes represented

GFS News & Noteworthy

Record Broken!

Thanks to the joyous and generous spirit of the GFS community, both on campus and online, this year's Giving Day broke a record. For 24 hours, students, faculty, staff, parents, grandparents, alumni and friends rallied to raise more than $340,000 - our highest ever amount, and reach our goal of 500 gifts, too, for a total of 591. 

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