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Sidwell Friends School

3825 Wisconsin Ave, N.w., Washington, DC, 20016-0200 -

School Overview:

	Sidwell Friends School
School Membership(s)	Friends Council on Education (FCE) Institute for Independent Education The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)
Religious Affiliation	Friends
Grades Offered	Grades Prekindergarten - 12
County	District of Columbia County, DC
Student Body
Total Students	1095 students
Student Body Type	Co-ed
	This School	(DC) School Avg.
% Students of Color	31%	61%
Students by Grade
	Pre-K - 22 students
	Kind - 48 students
	Grade 1 - 46 students
	Grade 2 - 50 students
	Grade 3 - 63 students
	Grade 4 - 65 students
	Grade 5 - 69 students
	Grade 6 - 72 students
	Grade 7 - 100 students
	Grade 8 - 102 students
	Grade 9 - 115 students
	Grade 10 - 114 students
	Grade 11 - 109 students
	Grade 12 - 120 students
Academics and Faculty
Total Classroom Teachers	130 teachers
	This School	(DC) School Avg.
Teacher : Student Ratio	1:8	* Ntl. Public School Avg. » 1:16
School Days in Calendar Year	172 days	180 days
Hours in School Day for Students	7 hours	7 hours
Admission Deadline	None / Rolling

In the News:

Former chief of elite Quaker school to speak (The Charlotte Observer)
posted on November 17, 2009 at 03:27:32 am
Bruce Stewart has strong opinions about education reform. Among other things, he wants the federal government to create a U.S. Teacher Academy, as rigorous and prestigious as the military academy at West Point.
Tuesday brings two education events (The Charlotte Observer)
posted on November 14, 2009 at 05:27:53 am
People who care about education face a tough choice Tuesday: A local panel will discuss equity in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, while a nationally known educator will talk about morality in education.
Westboro Protests at Obama Girls' School (The Advocate)
posted on November 10, 2009 at 06:13:27 pm
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested Monday outside the Washington, D.C., school attended by President Barack Obama's daughters.
Inauguration opened a new world for poet (Miami Herald)
posted on November 8, 2009 at 06:00:31 am
Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day, the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into office, was in the making for almost half a century, surely for three generations: The grandmother who sang lullabies, poetry set to music. The parents who took their 1-year-old daughter to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. The husband who emptied ...
Madison360: Obama visit is mega news here, but elsewhere? Not so much (The Capital Times)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 03:02:31 pm
When Madison's two newspapers left the isthmus for an undeveloped tract near a rail corridor on Fish Hatchery Road 34 years ago, they were adjacent to an empty site that was to become James C. Wright Middle School in 1997.

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School Zip Statistics:

About This Zipcode (20016)	School Zip (20016)	(DC) State Average
Population (Approximate)	31,374 people	572,059 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	81%	50%
Population Average Age	38 years old	35 years old
Average Household size	2.0 persons	2.1 persons
Median Household Income	$80,651	$47,150
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	5.2 rooms	4.5 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	59 years old	61 years old
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Median Value of Housing Unit Zipcode (20016) What's a Zindex? Subject to Zillow Terms of Use
% Owning / % Renting	62% / 38%	44% / 56%