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Nursery to Grade 12: We Go Further

OUR THREE DIVISIONS

Lower School

Nursery-Grade 5

Where joy-filled learning is embedded in play, exploration, and discovery.

 

Middle School

Grades 6-8

Transforming eager, enthusiastic, and motivated elementary school students into self-aware, analytical, and empathetic eighth graders

Upper School

Grades 9-12

Challenging and innovative program with lively and rigorous classes, athletic, artistic, and performance opportunities.

In Their Words

The College Counseling Office was always available and eager to help me, ensuring I have everything I need to complete my applications, helping me with my timeline, and helping edit my essays, and activities sheet. They also served as mentors in several ways, and I found myself able and comfortable to confide in them about any several of my school stressors.

Sammi Smith '26

Thespian

I've been a part of the FCS Community for over 25 years and love it here. FCS encourages relationship building, and I've made so many over the years, with students, colleagues and parents. These relationships have impacted me in so many wonderful ways and have made me a better teacher and person.

Padraig Barry

Middle School Science Teacher

FCS teachers have, without fail, supported me through my entire time in the Upper School, both in and out of the classroom. The teachers and the atmosphere of learning that they cultivate are what I cherish most at FCS and will be what I miss most.

Andrew Yu '25

Brown University Class of '29

I was looking for a school with a good education to start, but also a place where I felt like it was like a family, like everyone supported each other. At Friends' Central, I felt there were people pouring confidence and goodness into me.

Ryan Carter '27

Top 10 National Basketball Recruit

Friends’ Central influenced me by instilling a powerful desire to always be a part of a community, and not just part of a community, but an agent of change in my community. I didn’t realize it then, but my teachers had instilled the Quaker Testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship in me... We are all equal, and all our voices matter.

Lindsay Bedford '07

Artist

We're incredibly well-prepared for college. The interpersonal skills - how to talk to professors, advocating for yourself, seeing yourself as part of a community - those are all things that Friends’ Central taught us. 

Helen Potts '25

Amherst College Class of '29

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