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| name = Wilmington Friends School
| name = Wilmington Friends School
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| address = 101 School Road
| city = Wilmington
| state = Delaware
| city = [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]
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| country = US
| zipcode = 19803
| type = Independent Day Co-Ed
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| religion = [[Quaker]]
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| established = {{start date and age|1748}}
| type = [[Private school]]
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| head = Kenneth E. Aldridge
| religion = [[Society of Friends]]
| enrollment = 735
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| established = {{start date and age|1748|p=1}}
| alumni = Caesar A. Rodney, Louis McLane, James A. Bayard
| ceeb = 080160
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| head = Kenneth E. Aldridge
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| head_name = Head of School
| enrollment = 694 (includes 46 [[Pre-kindergarten|PK]] students) (2017-18)<ref name="NCES">{{cite web |title=Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Wilmington Friends School |url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?ID=00249715 |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=US Department of Education |access-date=December 19, 2020 |language=EN}}</ref>
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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.wilmingtonfriends.org/}}
| grades = [[Preschool]] - [[Twelfth grade|12]]<ref name="NCES" />
| teaching_staff = 74.1 {{FTE}}<ref name="NCES" />
| ratio = 8.7<ref name="NCES" />
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'''Wilmington Friends School''' is a [[Private school|private]] [[Preschool]]-[[Twelfth grade|12]] school in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] [[New Castle County, Delaware]], United States, near [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wilmingtonfriends.org|title=Home|publisher=Wilmington Friends School|accessdate=2021-02-14|quote=101 School Road Wilmington, DE 19803}} - The school is not in the Wilmington city limits, as seen in a comparison with [https://www.wilmingtonde.gov:443/home/showpublisheddocument?id=364 the zoning map] as of July 2021. The Wilmington Friends School is indicated on the map as being outside the Wilmington city limits.</ref> It is affiliated with the [[Society of Friends]], also known as the Quakers.
'''Wilmington Friends School''' is a preschool-12th grade, [[Quaker]] school, in [[Wilmington, Delaware]]. Today, the school is just above 7% Quaker. At Friends, global education encompasses signature international programs (International Baccalaureate, inter-divisional Chinese, School Year Abroad) and an overall approach that teaches students to engage complex issues intellectually and in action, in and outside of the classroom, with a sense of confidence and responsibility. The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers).<ref>{{cite web

== History ==
The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends.<ref>{{cite web
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Wilmington Friends School originally aimed to provide education for children belonging to the Society of Friends and to poor children, whatever their race, religion, or family's financial circumstance. [[Delaware]] historian [[Benjamin Ferris]] wrote in the 19th century "Thousands of children have there received the first rudiments of an English education."<ref>{{cite book |title=A history of the original settlements on the Delaware |last=Ferris |first=Benjamin |authorlink=Benjamin Ferris |publisher=Wilson & Heald |year=1846 |page=298}}</ref>
Of the school, [[Delaware]] historian [[Benjamin Ferris]] wrote in the 19th century, "Thousands of children have there received the first rudiments of an English education."<ref>{{cite book |title=A history of the original settlements on the Delaware |last=Ferris |first=Benjamin |author-link=Benjamin Ferris |publisher=Wilson & Heald |year=1846 |page=298}}</ref>

As Delaware started offering public education, the School moved toward its current all college-preparatory program. In 1937, the Friends School moved from its original site to its current location in Alapocas, just outside the city.

Wilmington Friends School is accredited by the [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]],<ref>{{cite web |title=CSS-MSA |url=http://www.css-msa.org/search.php?MODE=VIEW(0003DE)&org=CIWA}}</ref> and is authorized by the [[International Baccalaureate Organization]]<ref>{{cite web |title=IBO - Wilmington Friends School |url=http://www.ibo.org/school/001362/}}</ref> and [[School Year Abroad]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SYA - Consortium |url=http://www.sya.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=24}}</ref> Friends integrates global perspective throughout its curriculum, and emphasizes athletics, the arts, and service as integral to the program of studies.


In 1937, the Friends School moved from its original site to its current location in Alapocas, just outside the city of Wilmington. In 2019, it was announced that the school was selling its lower school building and constructing a new lower school on the middle and upper school campus. The community surrounding the school had an opposing viewpoint however and after years of push back and a denied request to alter variances, plans for the sale were cancelled. Wilmington Friends is now planning a significant remodel and expansion to the lower school, which will remain intact at its’ current location.
==Religious Component==
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Students are not required to be Quaker to attend Friends, but the school does expect students to embody the "Quaker SPICES", those being simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship. Both the Lower School and the Upper/Middle School are equipped with Meeting Rooms in which students meet every week for Meeting for Worship, a time of silent reflection. While in Middle School, students sit for only 25 minutes, Upper School Students meet for 45. Meeting for Worship takes many forms, the most common of which is silent. Occasionally such options as Meeting for Singing, Meeting for Doodling, Meeting in Advisory, and Meeting in Small Groups take place.


==Notable Alumni==
==Notable alumni==
{{Alumni|date=December 2020}}
*[[James A. Bayard (elder)|James A. Bayard]]
*[[Ashley Biden]], American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Joseph |first1=Adam |title=Joe Biden and Me |url=https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/joe-biden-and-me/article_0eb9b451-95ab-59df-a8e7-a77d795fb12b.html |website=Monterey County Weekly |access-date=17 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Ashley Biden]]
*[[Adam B. Ellick]], correspondent for ''[[The New York Times]]'' who filmed a documentary about [[Malala Yousafzai|Malala Yousafza]]
*[[Louis McLane]]
*[[Linda Holmes (writer)|Linda Holmes]], NPR personality and writer<ref>{{cite web |title=WFS Summer 2013 Magazine |url=https://issuu.com/wilmingtonfriends/docs/summer_magazine_2013/33 |website=Issuu |access-date=20 December 2020 |page=31 |language=en}}</ref>{{better source|reason=attendance of someone notable is an [[WP:EXTRAORDINARY]] claim. We cannot state an individual's attendance at a school as a fact in Wikipedia's voice without independent verification. There are literally thousands of examples of [[WP:NAMECRUFT]] vandalism weekly. There are dozens of examples of the more sinister [[WP:PROMOTIONAL]] insertion of names in an attempt to elevate the school's status. And it would look pretty stupid to state what we can state from this source: "According to the school, she is an alumni.|date=December 2020}}
*[[Caesar A. Rodney]]
*[[Matt Meyer]], New Castle County Executive
*[[Linda Holmes (writer)|Linda Holmes]] (NPR personality and writer)
*[[Crystal Nix-Hines]], United States Ambassador to [[UNESCO]]
*[[David Fine (activist)|David Fine]] (participant in the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
*[[Daniel Pfeiffer]], politician and podcaster{{cn|reason=no secondary sources in bio verifying attendance|date=December 2020}}
*[[Mason Fox Jones]] (he has a big pp)
*[[Carol Quillen]], president of [[Davidson College]]
* [[Mabel Vernon]], American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement{{cn|reason=attendance|date=May 2021}}


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Wilmington Friends School
Address
Map
101 School Road

Wilmington
,
Delaware
19803

United States
Coordinates39°46′07″N 75°33′02″W / 39.7685°N 75.5505°W / 39.7685; -75.5505
Information
TypePrivate school
Religious affiliation(s)Society of Friends
Established1748 (276 years ago) (1748)
CEEB code080160
Head of schoolKenneth E. Aldridge
Teaching staff74.1 (on an FTE basis)[1]
GradesPreschool - 12[1]
Enrollment694 (includes 46 PK students) (2017-18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio8.7[1]
Websitewww.wilmingtonfriends.org

Wilmington Friends School is a private Preschool-12 school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near Wilmington.[2] It is affiliated with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.

History

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The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends.[3]

Of the school, Delaware historian Benjamin Ferris wrote in the 19th century, "Thousands of children have there received the first rudiments of an English education."[4]

In 1937, the Friends School moved from its original site to its current location in Alapocas, just outside the city of Wilmington. In 2019, it was announced that the school was selling its lower school building and constructing a new lower school on the middle and upper school campus. The community surrounding the school had an opposing viewpoint however and after years of push back and a denied request to alter variances, plans for the sale were cancelled. Wilmington Friends is now planning a significant remodel and expansion to the lower school, which will remain intact at its’ current location.

Notable alumni

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Wilmington Friends School". nces.ed.gov. US Department of Education. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  2. ^ "Home". Wilmington Friends School. Retrieved 2021-02-14. 101 School Road Wilmington, DE 19803 - The school is not in the Wilmington city limits, as seen in a comparison with the zoning map as of July 2021. The Wilmington Friends School is indicated on the map as being outside the Wilmington city limits.
  3. ^ Hillegas, Jeanette O (October 1975). "Wilmington Friends School--1748". Independent School Bulletin. Retrieved 2008-02-08. This is another brief account of one of the seventeen member schools founded in the United States before 1776.
  4. ^ Ferris, Benjamin (1846). A history of the original settlements on the Delaware. Wilson & Heald. p. 298.
  5. ^ Joseph, Adam. "Joe Biden and Me". Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  6. ^ "WFS Summer 2013 Magazine". Issuu. p. 31. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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