Welcome to Wilmington Friends

Wilmington Friends School is a community.

Wilmington Friends is a private school in Wilmington, Delaware, with high standards for academic achievement and an environment where children thrive with confidence to be their very best. We emphasize critical and creative thinking, informed by the values of our Quaker roots: integrity, community, equality, simplicity, stewardship, and peace. Serving preschool, elementary, middle and high school students.

We offer an unsurpassed private school academic program, and just as important, Friends is a great place to grow up. What often brings families to Quaker education (95% of the families who choose Friends are not Quaker) is the appeal of an academic program with depth—one that asks students to question, to collaborate, to be creative, to take risks—within a caring community that balances focus on the individual with responsibility to the common good.

Our teachers (including coaches) know our students; teachers provide individual attention and are deeply invested in students’ growth and success. Because they are known as individuals, students are able to discover and develop the best in themselves; because they are valued and held to high standards as members of a community, students are motivated to contribute and to lead.

For parents, Friends is a great place to join with other families who share a commitment to education that inspires the best in each student while fostering an active responsibility to the good of all. There is no “typical” Friends School student or family. We recognize diversity of thought, identity, and experience as essential to both academic excellence and the character of our community.


  

Preschool

Blending established best practices with current research and drawing from complementary components of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education.


Beginning at Age 2 1/2


  

Lower School

Encouraging student voice and full participation, as individuals and as members of a community, in the learning process.


Prekindergarten through 5th Grade

Middle School

Guiding students to a place of self-discovery and empowering them to find the solutions as they understand their own personal learning style.


6th through 8th Grade


  

Upper School

Helping students develop their talents and passions, and continuing to encourage a process of discovery, in and outside of the classroom.


9th through 12th Grade
101 School Road, Wilmington, DE 19803
302.576.2900   |   info@wilmingtonfriends.org
Preschool - 12th Grade

Statement of Nondiscrimination as to Student Enrollment
Wilmington Friends School admits students of any race, color, gender, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students of these schools. Wilmington Friends School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national and ethnic origin in administration of their educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school administered programs.