Friends' Central School (FCS) is a college-preparatory, Quaker, coeducational day school for nursery through grade 12 located in Wynnewood, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The school was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia, near the current location of the United States Mint and currently has an enrollment of more than 1000 students from nursery to grade 12.
Informally known as "Friends' Central," the school encompasses three divisions: lower school (nursery through 4th grades), middle school (5th through 8th) and upper school (9th through 12th). The middle and upper school share a campus, and the lower school occupies its own site.
The school is widely known for the quality of its education, ranking highly as one of the top schools in the Philadelphia area.
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