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Local Friends Schools:
New York is home to several Friends schools, including one dedicated to the success of students with learning disabilities. These schools expose students to Quaker testimonies, including the SPICES: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship.
- Brooklyn Friends School
375 Pearl Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-852-1029
https://www.brooklynfriends.org
Established by the Religious Society of Friends in 1867, Brooklyn Friends School is now an independent entity that teaches students a college preparatory program based in Quaker tradition.
- Mary McDowell Friends School
20 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-626-3939
https://www.new.marymcdowell.org
Also founded by Brooklyn Friends, Mary McDowell Friends School teaches students with learning disabilities. It is named for a member of the Brooklyn Meeting, a long-time educator. Opened in 1984 with a class of 5 students, the first class of seniors graduated 2014!
- Friends Seminary
222 E 16th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-979-5030
https://www.friendsseminary.org
Friends Seminary educates students from kindergarten through twelfth grade, adhering to the values of the Religious Society of Friends. We strive to build a diverse school where students exercise their curiosity and imagination as they develop as scholars, artists and athletes.
- Oakwood Friends School
22 Spackenkill Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
845-462-4200
https://www.oakwoodfriends.org/why-oakwood/mission-and-philosophy/
Oakwood Friends School prepares young people for lives of achievement, accomplishment, compassion and conscience. The Oakwood experience is guided by Quaker principles, symbolized by the acronym SPICES: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community. Equality, Stewardship.
Friends Schools in Africa
Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee
Founded by Brooklyn Friend JIM MORGAN, since 2001, the Great Lakes Region (Africa) Education Committee of the New York Quarterly Meeting has raised funds for faculty housing and cisterns at the Quaker-founded Kisangura Schools in Tanzania, and to build classrooms at the Davanga School in Kenya.
We have sponsored over 100 students at the Kisangura Primary and Secondary Schools, paying all of their annual school fees, textbooks, and uniforms. We pay the dorm fees for all of the secondary school female students we sponsor, so they may live on campus. We encourage and support students who pass their secondary school national exams to enroll further education programs.
For more information about Quaker education, advocacy, and activism, and about Brooklyn Friends Meeting, please visit these links: