About SFS
Sidwell Friends School (SFS) is a PK-12, co-educational Quaker day school with campuses in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD. Founded in 1883, the School is a non-profit, tax-exempt institution governed by an independent Board of Trustees.
Facilities on the fifteen-acre Wisconsin Avenue campus in the Tenleytown section of Northwest Washington include the Earl G. Harrison, Jr. Upper School Building; the Middle School Building; Kogod Center for the Arts; Richard Walter Goldman Memorial Library; Zartman House (administration); Campus Services (security, information technology, and buildings and grounds); Sensner Building (Fox Den Cafe and school store); bi-level underground parking lot; the Wannan and Kenworthy Gymnasiums; three athletic fields including one with all-weather turf surface; five tennis courts; and a six-lane track.
The five-acre Edgemoor Lane campus in Bethesda includes the Manor House (administration and Clark Library); the Groome Building (classrooms and multi-purpose room); the Science, Art, and Music (SAM) Building; Gymnasium, the Bethesda Friends Meeting House; and athletic fields and two playground areas with climbing equipment.
For the 2008-2009 school year, 1,098 students (552 boys and 546 girls) are enrolled. Thirty nine percent of the student body are students of color. Twenty-two percent of the student body receive almost $5 million of need-based financial assistance. The School employs 145 teachers and 103 administrative and support staff. Tuitions for the 2008-2009 school year are $28,442 (prekindergarten-grade 4) and $29,442 (grades 5-12).
Sidwell Friends School is committed as an institution to the ideal of diversity with regard to age, economic background, ethnicity, gender, physical disability, political affiliation, race and sexual orientation in its student body, faculty and staff. The School does not discriminate in the administration of its admissions, financial aid or loan practices; curricular offerings, including inter-scholastic athletics and physical education; other School-sponsored programs and activities; or in the hiring and terms of employment of administrators, faculty and staff. Except for special considerations that may be given to members of the Religious Society of Friends because of the School's Quaker affiliation, the School does not discriminate on the basis of religion.
