Founded in 1994, Friends School is the best choice for families of Wilmington who want an education for their children that will prepare them to lead their lives with wisdom and confidence. The Friends School experience stimulates imaginations, engages intellects, strengthens bodies, and enriches spirits. Friends School provides students with the time and the place in which to build the foundation for a happy, prosperous, and meaningful life. Friends School of Wilmington is an independent school in which girls and boys and women and men share in silence and noise, reflection and debate, with a self-respect and mutual regard that inspires each individual to grow ever stronger.

Friends School is a progressive community of learning committed to teaching children to find and keep their balance in a forever changing world. Firmly rooted in the enduring values of the Quakers, Friends School is a vibrant learning community that chooses simplicity over material possession; peaceful resolution of conflict over aggression; integrity over expedience; equality over elitism; and stewardship of the earth as a collective and personal responsibility. Friends School students are lovingly educated; they travel to many destinations and experience life, propelled by possibility, motivated by optimism, unrestricted by convention, reinforced by achievement, and guided by principle.

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