List of Friends schools

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Template:Short description Template:Quakers vertical Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers.

Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends. Most Friends schools are similar in their mission however: to provide an academically sound education while also instilling values of community, spirituality, responsibility and stewardship in their students.<ref name="Quaker Education: What’s Different about a Friends School?">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Some institutions founded by Friends were never formally "Quaker schools". Some historically Friends institutions are no longer formally associated with the Society of Friends. Those that continue to call themselves "Quaker schools" may have formal oversight from a Friends yearly or monthly meeting (often called coming "under care of" a meeting), and others are governed by members of the Society of Friends and/or adhere to aspects of Quaker practice.

Because of the wide range of Friends, the branch (or branches) of Quakerism with which the school affiliates are included, and where applicable the Yearly, Quarterly or Monthly Meeting under whose care or governance the school is held is shown.

The following is a list of schools currently or historically associated with the Society of Friends, regardless of their current degree of affiliation:

Australia

Belize

  • Belize Friends School, Belize City, (formerly known as Belize Friends Boys School) supported by Friends United Meeting<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Bolivia

Bolivian Friends have established several schools, which are supported from the United States by the Bolivian Quaker Education Fund.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Canada

  • Argenta Friends School, Argenta, British Columbia, defunct
  • Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, PreK–12th grade, founded as a Quaker school, "not a Quaker school today"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Costa Rica

  • Monteverde Friends School,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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El Salvador

  • Instituto Teológico de los Amigos de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, a ministerial training institute under the care of Iglesia de los Amigos en El Salvador

Honduras

  • Instituto Biblico Jorge Fox, San Marcos Ocotepeque, Honduras, a ministerial training institute under the care of Junta Annual Amigos de Honduras

Ireland

Jamaica

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Japan

  • Friends School, Tokyo, Japan, founded by Quaker missionaries, now independent of specific meeting care, but run on Friends principles

Kenya

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Lebanon

Palestine

United Kingdom

Secondary schools

  • Ackworth School, near Pontefract, England; "founded in 1779 by John Fothergill on behalf of The Religious Society of Friends... the School Committee is still accountable to this body"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Bootham School, York, England (1822); majority of School Committee is appointed by Quakers in Yorkshire, formerly Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Breckenbrough School, near Thirsk, England (1934); residential school for boys with behavioral and emotional conditions; a "registered charitable trust school with a Quaker... trusteeship"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Leighton Park School, Reading, England; a Friends boarding and day school; founded in 1890 in part to replace Grove House School in Tottenham, London
  • The Mount School, York, England (1785), a Friends school for girls, founded by Yorkshire Quakers
  • Sibford School, near Banbury, England (1842), a Friends school, originally founded for the children of Quakers who 'married outside'
  • Sidcot School, near Weston-super-Mare, England, "founded in 1699 and administered on the Quaker principles of truth, integrity, respect, simplicity, equality, and sustainability".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Non-Friends schools with Friends connections

  • St Christopher School, Letchworth, England, founded by Theosophists and never under care of the Society of Friends, but operated 1925–1980 by the Harris family, who were Quakers<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Defunct Friends schools

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  • Friends' School, Saffron Walden, England, (known as Walden School in 2016–17) the oldest Friends School, was founded in 1702, under the care of Britain Yearly Meeting which indirectly appointed the school's Board of Governors through the Friends' School Saffron Walden General Meeting<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Other institutions

  • Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, adult study centre for United Kingdom Quakers
  • Friends' Schools' Council, group established to support Quakers in education.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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United States

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  • William Penn University, Oskaloosa, Iowa, founded by Quakers, no formal affiliation; "The university is firmly rooted in its Christian heritage with certain characteristics distinctive to Quakers, but welcomes faculty, staff and students from all faiths."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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The athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania are referred to as the Quakers, and the university is in Philadelphia, the historic center of American Quakerism, but it is not a Quaker institution, nor was it historically.

Secondary (high) schools

"Independent Quaker schools" are operated using Quaker principles and often include a majority of Quakers among trustees, but are not formally under care of a meeting.

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Lower and middle schools

Note: This section lists schools with grades only below 9th grade. Schools including high school grades are listed above.

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  • Chappaqua Friends Nursery School, Chappaqua, New York, PreK
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Study centers

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