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Friends' Central School

1845 establishments in PennsylvaniaEducational institutions established in 1845Lower Merion Township, PennsylvaniaPrivate elementary schools in PennsylvaniaPrivate high schools in Pennsylvania
Private middle schools in PennsylvaniaQuaker schools in PennsylvaniaSchools in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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Friends' Central School (FCS) is a Quaker school which educates students from nursery through grade 12. It is located in Wynnewood, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia.The school was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia, near the current location of the United States Mint. Today it has an enrollment of more than 800 students from Nursery to grade 12. Informally known as "Friends' Central," the school encompasses three divisions: Lower School (nursery through 5th grades), Middle School (6th through 8th), and Upper School (9th through 12th). The Middle and Upper Schools share their campus, and the Lower School occupies its own site. The school is widely known for the quality of its education, consistently as one of the top schools in the Philadelphia area.

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Greenhill Drive, Lower Merion Township

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19096 Lower Merion Township
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