Wilmington Friends School is a private Preschool-12 school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near Wilmington.[2] It is affiliated with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.
Wilmington Friends School | |
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Address | |
101 School Road , Delaware 19803 United States | |
Coordinates | 39°46′07″N 75°33′02″W / 39.7685°N 75.5505°W |
Information | |
Type | Private school |
Religious affiliation(s) | Society of Friends |
Established | 1748 |
CEEB code | 080160 |
Head of school | Kenneth E. Aldridge |
Teaching staff | 74.1 (on an FTE basis)[1] |
Grades | Preschool - 12[1] |
Enrollment | 694 (includes 46 PK students) (2017-18)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 8.7[1] |
Website | www |
The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends.[3]
Of the school, Delaware historian Benjamin Ferris wrote in the 19th century, "Thousands of children have there received the first rudiments of an English education."[4]
In 1937, the Friends School moved from its original site to its current location in Alapocas, just outside the city of Wilmington. In 2019, it was announced that the school was selling its lower school building and constructing a new lower school on the middle and upper school campus. The building and about 20 acres of property is planned to be sold to the pharmaceutical research company Incyte.[5]
101 School Road Wilmington, DE 19803- The school is not in the Wilmington city limits, as seen in a comparison with the zoning map as of July 2021. The Wilmington Friends School is indicated on the map as being outside the Wilmington city limits.
This is another brief account of one of the seventeen member schools founded in the United States before 1776.