Thornton Friends School was a 6-12 Quaker school with three campuses, two in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A., and one in Alexandria, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The Alexandria campus continues to operate as Alexandria Friends School.
There was on average around 55 students in the Silver Spring Upper School and 15 students in the middle school; the Virginia upper school once had as many as 43 students. Classes at the upper schools averaged about 9 students, and the middle school averaged about 6.
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