Friends Select School

Friends Select School is the only pre-K-to-12 Quaker school in Center City Philadelphia. The beauty of our location at 17th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is that our students, faculty, and staff can walk, ride SEPTA, or take a short bus ride to extend classroom learning into the amazing spaces that Philadelphia has to offer—from parks and museums, to universities and cultural sites, to government offices and vibrant neighborhoods. With the city as a classroom, Friends Select students and educators see themselves not just as observers of, but participants in, the complex fabric of everyday life in Philadelphia.

Friends Select recently transformed its spaces to enrich student learning and expanded its campus to include a new upper school STEAM Building at 1520 Race Street. This addition empowers students to pursue advanced projects in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics as they prepare to become the innovators of tomorrow.