Friends School of Baltimore

Last updated
Friends School of Baltimore
Friends School-Baltimore logo.jpg
Address
Friends School of Baltimore
5114 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21210, United States
Coordinates 39°21′22″N76°37′39″W / 39.35611°N 76.62750°W / 39.35611; -76.62750
Information
Type Private, Co-ed, Day
MottoPalma Non Sine Pulvere
Religious affiliation(s) Quaker
Established1784;240 years ago (1784)
Head of SchoolChristian Donovan
Faculty95
Enrollment1009 total
Average class size12 students
Student to teacher ratio8:1
Campus Suburban, 35 acres
Color(s)Scarlet and Gray
Athletics30 sports
Athletics conferenceMen: MIAA, Women: IAAM
MascotThe Quaker
NewspaperThe Quaker Quill
YearbookThe Quaker
Website friendsbalt.org
Friends School-Baltimore.jpg Part of the Friends School campus

Friends School of Baltimore is a private Quaker school in Baltimore, serving students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

Contents

History

It is the oldest private school in Baltimore, founded in 1784 by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Classes were first held in the Aisquith Street Meetinghouse in the East Baltimore community of Old Town. The school was moved to the Lombard Street Meetinghouse in the 1840s and then, in 1899, to its third location at 1712 Park Avenue, adjacent to the Park Avenue Meetinghouse. In 1925, Friends purchased its present site at 5114 North Charles Street. Though the school was incorporated in 1973 and separated from the Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run, it maintains historic and philosophic ties with the Meeting.

Curriculum and administration

Friends School Friends School2-Baltimore.jpg
Friends School

As of 2006, the school had a faculty of 105 teachers, including 87 full-time faculty and a yearly operating budget of $16.1 million. As of 2022, the school has an endowment of $41.89 million. [1] The school is governed by a board of trustees.

Friends' academics are notable for a number of signature programs: the University Partnership Program, Scholas Certificate Program, Inspired Institute, Social Justice Practitioners, William Penn Fellows, and Peer Educators. [2] Friends School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the Association of Independent Maryland Schools, and is approved by the Maryland State Board of Education.

Principals, headmasters, heads of the school

†The terms "Principal" and "Headmaster" were not used before 1864. The term "Head of School" was first used by Jon M. Harris.

†From 1889 to 1899 Eli M. Lamb's "Friends' Elementary and High School" operated separately from the Baltimore Monthly Meeting's school.

Historical timeline

Athletics

Friends' athletic program for middle and upper school students is intended to impart Quaker values and foster "collaboration, resilience, teamwork, communication, and leadership", for its 15 middle school teams and 19 upper school teams for boys and girls. [3] Sports offered include soccer, field hockey, cross country and track, basketball, volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, baseball, and softball. The Quakers boys soccer team won the conference championship in 2017. [4] Declining student participation in tackle football, mirroring national trends, resulted in Friends dropping the sport in 2018. [5]

Notable alumni

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radnor Township, Pennsylvania</span> Township with home rule in Pennsylvania, United States

Radnor Township, often called simply Radnor, is a first class township with home rule status in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sidwell Friends School</span> Washington, D.C. area PreK-12 school

Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through high school classes. Founded in 1883 by Thomas W. Sidwell, its motto is "Eluceat omnibus lux", alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light. All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly, and middle school students begin every day with five minutes of silence.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friends Seminary</span> Private school in New York City

Friends Seminary is an independent K-12 school in Manhattan within the landmarked district in the East Village. The oldest continuously coeducational school in New York City, Friends Seminary serves 794 students in Kindergarten through Grade 12. The school's mission is to prepare students "not only for the world that is, but to help them bring about a world that ought to be." It is guided by a service mission statement and a diversity mission statement. Friends is a member of New York's Independent School Diversity Network.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norfolk Collegiate School</span> Independent school in Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Norfolk Collegiate is a coeducational independent day school in Norfolk, Virginia for students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Norfolk Collegiate is accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS). It's also a member of the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools, which includes 10 private schools from the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, as well as a member of the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moorestown Friends School</span> Private school in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States

Moorestown Friends School is a private, coeducational Quaker day school located in Moorestown, in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friends Select School</span> Private school in Philadelphia, PA, United States

Friends Select School (FSS) is a college-preparatory, Quaker school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade located at 1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the intersection of Cherry and N. 17th Streets in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Friends (Quaker) education dating to 1689, Friends Select, which was founded in 1833, has been located on this site since 1885. The current building, which includes an office building owned by the school, was built in 1967-69. An adjacent campus building is located across the street at 1700 Race Street. The Race Street Meetinghouse, built in 1856, is used by students and faculty for Meeting for Worship each Wednesday and Thursday. The school is under the joint care of both the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia and is governed by a board of trustees comprised equally of the two.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sandy Spring Friends School</span> Independent school

Sandy Spring Friends School (SSFS) is a progressive, coeducational, college preparatory Quaker school serving students from preschool through 12th grade. SSFS offers an optional 5- and 7- day boarding program in the Middle School and Upper School. 59% of its student body identifies as students of color, and 19 countries are represented in its boarding program. Founded in 1961, its motto is "Let Your Lives Speak" an old Quaker adage which expresses the school's philosophy of "educating all aspects of a person so that their life—in all of its facets—can reveal the unique strengths within." SSFS sits on a pastoral 140-acre campus in the heart of Montgomery County, Maryland, approximately midway between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. SSFS is under the care of the Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting and the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roland Park Country School</span> Private, day, college-prep school in Baltimore, MD, United States

Roland Park Country School (RPCS) is an independent all-girls college preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It serves girls from kindergarten through grade 12. It is located on Roland Avenue in the northern area of Baltimore called Roland Park. An August 2010 Baltimore magazine article cites RPCS as the "best school for tomorrow’s leaders."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boys' Latin School of Maryland</span> Private, all-boys day, k-12 (education) school in Baltimore, MD, USA

Boys' Latin School of Maryland is an all-boys, university-preparatory school located in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1844, it is the oldest independent, nonsectarian secondary school in the state of Maryland. The school is divided into Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. There are approximately 640 students in kindergarten through twelfth grades.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rye Country Day School</span> Independent school in Rye, New York, United States

Rye Country Day School, also known as Rye Country Day or RCDS, is an independent, co-educational college preparatory school located in Rye, New York. Its Upper School, Middle School (5–8), and Lower School (Pre-Kindergarten-4) enroll a total of 886 students on its 35-acre campus. Rye Country Day attracts students from over 40 school districts in the tri-state area. The School's $5.9 million financial aid budget provides significant tuition grants to the families of 143 students (16%) in the school. 35% of RCDS students self-identify as people of color.

Haddonfield Friends School (HFS) is a private, Quaker coeducational day school in Haddonfield, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Calvert School, founded in 1897, is an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational lower and middle school located in Baltimore, Maryland. Calvert School is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) as well as the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools (AIMS).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abington Friends School</span> Private school in the United States

Abington Friends School is an independent Quaker school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving students from age 3 to grade 12. Abington Friends School has stood on its original campus in the Abington Township neighborhood of Jenkintown since 1697, and is the oldest primary and secondary educational institution in the United States to operate continuously at the same location under the same management. The school draws students from approximately 75 ZIP codes around the greater Philadelphia area, as well as international students from many regions of China.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friends meeting house</span> Meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eastern High School (Michigan)</span>

Lansing Eastern High School is a public, magnet high school in Lansing, Michigan as part of the Lansing School District. Eastern International Baccalaureate Magnet High School is the only high school in mid-Michigan authorized to offer students the opportunity to earn an International Baccalaureate Diploma. Eastern also has the second-largest alumni association in the United States. It was located on the city's east-side on Pennsylvania Avenue, one block north of Michigan Avenue but is now located on Marshall Street on the corner of Marshall Street and Saginaw Street. The building was connected with former Pattengill Middle School next to Sparrow Hospital. In 2007, Sparrow purchased the Pattengill property to create a parking lot. With the deconstruction of Pattengill Middle School, Lansing Eastern became the oldest operational school in the Lansing School District. It opened in 1928 as the second high school in the city. The athletic teams were named Quakers because the school was located on Pennsylvania Avenue and a Society of Friends (Quaker) meeting house was located across the street. In March 2012 the Lansing School District announced that Eastern would house 7-12 grades beginning in the 2012–2013 school year. On January 20, 2016, the Lansing School Board voted to sell the school to the Edward Sparrow Hospital Association for approximately $2.5 million. Students were relocated to the former Pattengill Middle School in Fall 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friends Academy</span> Private co-ed school in Glen Cove, New York, USA

Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, independent, college preparatory school serving students from nursery school through the twelfth grade, located in Locust Valley, New York, United States. The school was founded in 1876 by 78-year-old Gideon Frost for "The children of Friends and those similarly sentimented." The school was originally named Friends College. The campus covers 65 acres (26 ha). The school is organized around a lush, grassy quad with buildings surrounding it. Recent additions to the school include the Helen A. Dolan Center (2000), the Kumar-Wang Library (2000), the renovation of the Upper School (2004), the renovation of the Lower School (2010), the construction of the gym and field house (2007), and the renovation of the Middle School (2016).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse</span> Historic church in Maryland, United States

Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse, also known as Aisquith Street Meeting or Baltimore Meeting, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story brick building which has undergone several alterations over the years. It is the oldest religious building in the city, having been built in 1781 by contractor George Mathews.

Westfield Friends School is a private, coeducational Quaker day school in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, United States, within the Philadelphia metro area. Founded in 1788 and under the care ofd Westfield Friends Meeting, it is the oldest Friends school in the United States operated by a meeting. The school's grounds are an 8+12-acre suburban campus.

Frankford Friends School is an independent, coeducational Quaker day school for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight. It is located at 1500 Orthodox Street in the historic Frankford section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

References

  1. "Why Support Friends? - Friends School of Baltimore". www.friendsbalt.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  2. "Signature Programs - Friends School of Baltimore". www.friendsbalt.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  3. "Athletics at Friends". Friends School of Baltimore. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
  4. DiBlasi, Joe (August 21, 2018). "Friends carries heavy hearts into title defense; MIAA B Champs have devoted their season to a fallen teammate". Varsity Sports Network. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  5. Dunn, Katherine (September 26, 2018). "Baltimore's Friends School cancels football season after only about 10 players try out". Baltimore Sun . Retrieved September 5, 2019.
  6. "J. Smith Orrick Rites To Be Conducted". The Baltimore Sun . 1930-02-28. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-03-26 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg

Sources