Friends Select School (FSS) is a college-preparatory, Quaker school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade located in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Friends (Quaker) education dating to 1689, Friends Select has been located at 17th St. and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway since 1885. An adjacent campus building is located across the street at 1700 Race Street (Friends Select @ 1700). The Race Street Friends Meetinghouse, built in 1856, is used by students and faculty for Meeting for Worship each Wednesday. The school is under the care of both the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia at 4th & Arch (held at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House). The school is currently governed by a board of trustees divided equally between the two monthly meetings that oversee the school.
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