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Germantown Friends School

Germantown Friends School

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31 W Coulter St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19144, United States
(215) 951-2300 www.germantownfriends.org
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Nov 11, 2013
Our older son is in 1st grade and our younger son is applying for kindergarten. We've been so pleased and impressed with the program. It's amazing what our son is learning, and he loves it! He gets upset if he has to miss school because he's sick! I think what has moved us the most is how supportive the learning environment is. He's made wonderful friends there. We live in Center City and the bus is wonderful.

Sep 15, 2014
I, and many in my family including my own four children, graduated from GFS. I have also been employed by the school for over 23 years. We each received a superb education grounded in values and designed to nurture our passions and strengths as learners, athletes, musicians, leaders and more. The GFS community continues to be a terrific resource for lifelong friendships. It earns its national reputation as a leading independent school every day.

Jul 24, 2015
I attended GFS through the 8th grade until we moved from the area in 1961. I'll never forget the wonderful teachers who instilled basic values, the quest for knowledge, and a sound education that saw me through college in later years. This is a great school!

Jan 1, 2018
Its epic

Oct 12, 2009
As a graduate of both an American school and two British universities of very high standing, and someone who has done a great deal of research and visiting of private schools around the nation, I can say without a shadow of a doubt Germantown Friends stands head and shoulders above almost every other school. I knew very little about it (but had heard of it) ten years ago when I chanced to discover that a fellow student of mine at Oxford - a singularly brilliant person - had gone to GFS. At the time, I was doing research into educational environments in the US and the UK and was due to return to the US for an extended period of work. So I put it on my list. After at least eight years of looking at schools across the nation, and interviewing hundreds of students, former students and parents of many, many excellent public and private schools, it would be pretty difficult to come away without GFS being one of the top schools on the list, along with Sidwell Friends in Washington DC., and several others. It is a school that manages to balance a very serious and rigorous focus on deep knowledge of the fundamentals (at a very high level) with an unpretentious, solid backing in values that are truly carried forth beyond the school into students' lives. Beyond these broader assessments, from just a nitty gritty college prep perspective, I think one quote from a former student I interviewed was an interesting assessment. He said, "I didn't truly appreciate my education at GFS until I got to my sophomore year at Cornell, and realized we were reading books that I had read in eleventh grade." All I can say is, I wish I lived in Philadelphia so that I could send my daughter there.

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