Friends' Central Upper School
Our 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. Students also have academic-based travel opportunities to places such as France, Spain, Greece, Japan, and Peru.
Leadership skills, global awareness, and self discipline are developed throughout the curriculum and in extracurricular activities such as Model United Nations, Makerspace, Debate, Mock Trial, athletics, drama, and numerous other clubs and activities. The Upper School program includes a required community service component with Upper School students and faculty spending five full days a year at agencies and organizations throughout the greater Philadelphia region.
Curriculum
Friends’ Central’s Upper School curriculum provides students an exceptional college preparatory program in an atmosphere that sets the highest of academic and personal standards. The environment is one in which students are encouraged to find their own voices and pursue their own intellectual, spiritual, and ethical passions.
Clubs
Friends’ Central has a vast array of student-led clubs. Students are encouraged to develop new clubs, each of which must be approved by the Dean of Students and supervised by a faculty member.
Learning Experiences
In the Upper School, learning extends well beyond the traditional classroom, with unique and carefully crafted experiences that are integral to the Friends' Central approach to education.
Student Engagement Initiative
At Friends' Central School, we believe that true, deep learning happens when students are both intellectually challenged and deeply engaged.
College Counseling
Friends' Central School provides highly personalized, expert college admission counseling to students and their families. Our three full-time counselors have extensive experience working in independent school college counseling and selective college admissions.
Meet the Upper School Leadership Team
Elizabeth Kriynovich
Upper School Assistant Principal
College of Wooster - BA, Middlebury College - MA
Jeanette Kelleher
Dean of Students
Washington College - BA, NJCU Teaching Cert, Montclair State University - MA
