Cultivating the Intellectual, Spiritual, and Ethical Promise of Our Students
Challenging, intellectual, and engaging, Friends' Central builds foundational skills within a curriculum that is innovative, thoughtful, and dynamic. At every level, our students are encouraged to ask questions and to seek answers that push beyond their impressive accumulation of facts. Never satisfied by “what,” our students are always asking “why,” “how,” and, perhaps most importantly, “why not.”
Friends’ Central students distinguish themselves while at FCS, in college where they are known for their exceptional preparation, and in the world where their contributions are extraordinary.
Lower School
Friends’ Central’s Lower School is a place where joy-filled learning is embedded in play, exploration, and discovery.
The experience is as academically challenging and exciting as it is supportive and structured.
Middle School
Friends’ Central Middle School inspires and develops courageous leaders who think independently, work collaboratively, and learn joyfully. We transform eager, enthusiastic, and motivated elementary school students into self-aware, analytical, and empathetic eighth graders.
Upper School
Friends' Central Upper School's challenging and innovative program includes lively and rigorous classes, athletic, artistic, and performance opportunities. The Friends’ Central classroom emphasizes advanced levels of critical and conceptual thinking, and independent projects that require significant student research.
Why FCS?
Joining the Friends' Central community is more than simply enrolling in a school. When families choose Friends’ Central, they are joining a community committed to the School’s Mission, to cultivate the intellectual, spiritual, and ethical promise of our students.
Quaker Philosophy in the Curriculum
At Friends’ Central, School life and curriculum are steeped in Quaker values. At every level, we promote a commitment to learning through inquiry, reflection, action, and discovery - an approach that stems from the Quaker belief in Continuing Revelation.
Student Engagement Initiative
At Friends' Central School, we believe that true, deep learning happens when students are both intellectually challenged and deeply engaged.
