Sidwell Friends is an educational community inspired by the values of the Religious Society of Friends and guided by the Quaker belief in "That of God" in each person.
We seek academically talented students of diverse cultural, racial, religious and economic backgrounds.
We offer these students a rich and rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum designed to stimulate creative inquiry, intellectual achievement and independent thinking in a world increasingly without borders.
We encourage these students to test themselves in athletic competition and to give expression to their artistic abilities.
We draw strength from silence-and from the power of individual and collective reflection.
We cultivate in all members of our community high personal expectations and integrity, respect for consensus, and an understanding of how diversity enriches us, why stewardship of the natural world matters and why service to others enhances life.
Above all, we seek to be a school that nurtures a genuine love of learning and teaches students "to let their lives speak.".
Sidwell Friends School is an educational community inspired by
the values of the Religious Society of Friends and guided by the
Quaker belief in "That of God" in each person. We seek academically
talented students of diverse cultural, racial, religious and
economic backgrounds. We offer these students a rich and rigorous
interdisciplinary curriculum designed to stimulate creative
inquiry, intellectual achievement and independent thinking in a
world increasingly without borders. We encourage these students to
test themselves in athletic competition and to give expression to
their artistic abilities. We draw strength from silence-and from
the power of individual and collective reflection. We cultivate in
all members of our community high personal expectations and
integrity, respect for consensus, and an understanding of how
diversity enriches us, why stewardship of the natural world matters
and why service to others enhances life. Above all, we seek to be a
school that nurtures a genuine love of learning and teaches
students "to let their lives speak."
Decades ago private schools could have been accused of being elitist. You had to have money to attend. The student populations were fairly homogeneous. Fortunately that has changed.
The average private school tuition in Washington, DC is $26,767 for elementary schools and $29,208 for high schools (read more about average private school tuition across the country).
