Abington Friends School

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Location
Abington Friends School
Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Information
Religion	Quaker
Type	Private
Athletics conference	Friends Schools League
Established	1697
Homepage	Abington Friends School Website

Abington Friends School, founded in 1697, is a K-12 private Quaker secondary school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania (a northwestern suburb of Philadelphia). It is the oldest primary and secondary educational institution in the United States to operate continuously at the same location under the same management ^[1], however it was not the first school in Pennsylvania. Based in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, it is bounded by both Meetinghouse Road and Washington Lane. The still-standing school had been in existence for about 79 years when George Washington marched his troops down Washington Lane.

[edit] The Campus

The cornerstone on the meetinghouse reads 1697, although only the northwest corner of the current building was constructed at that time.

There is an eighteenth-century farmhouse near the meetinghouse, and another nearer the rest of the school, which is now mostly on the other side of the campus. The administration building is Victorian. All classes, however, are held in postwar buildings, which were originally separate but with the school's vast growth in the last decades are now completely interconnected. Much of this area was once the other nine holes of Abington Golf Club, on lease from Abington Monthly Meeting.

There is a large cemetery behind the meetinghouse, with many eighteenth-century stones.

The school starts in Preschool, with the toddler room, and goes all the way up to 12th grade.