Friends Seminary

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Friends Seminary is a private, Quaker school located in downtown Manhattan. It enrolls roughly 650 kindergarten through 12th grade students. The school is divided into three sections: Kindergarten through 4th grade (Lower School), 5th grade through 8th grade (Middle School) and 9th grade through 12 grade (Upper School).

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[edit] History

Friends Seminary was founded in 1786 on as Friends Institute. In 1826 the school was moved to a larger campus. The school again moved in 1860 to its current location and changed the name to Friends Seminary. In 1925 Friends Seminary was the first private co-educational school to hire a full time psychologist.

The school simultaneously holds very high academic standards and takes the pressure off of the students' performance. Its teachers are known to give students more personal attention than many other schools, in addition to its already small class sizes. Friends Seminary often sends its students off to prestigious universities and high schools, including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Brown and Cornell University as well as Stuyvesant High School and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. In the 2005-2006 year, 3 students were admitted to Stuyvesant High School, and the 2006-2007 year, 4 were accepted. Friends Seminary continues to uphold its reputation without putting stress on its students.

[edit] Facilities

The school is located in a number of buildings. The largest building is the 1963 building, where classes are held for the entire Middle School, most of the Lower School and some of the Upper School. The 1963 building contains a basement level gym, library and media center, a language lab, science labs, art studios, a photography dark room, computer labs, a music room and classrooms for Lower, Middle and Upper School students.

The school purchased and renovated a former Masonic Temple in 2001 and 2002. The new building, called "The Annex" incorporates Green technology to create a building with less of an ecological footprint than many other buildings in the city. The building includes more science labs, as well as three multi-use classrooms. The building houses the offices of the Upper School, as well as a theatre on the ground floor level.

The school is currently undergoing significant renovation.

[edit] Notable alumni

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