Sidwell Friends School (SFS) is a PK-12, co-educational Quaker day school with campuses in Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD. Founded in 1883, the School is a non-profit, tax-exempt institution governed by an independent Board of Trustees.

Facilities on the fifteen-acre Wisconsin Avenue campus in the Tenleytown section of Northwest Washington include the Earl G. Harrison Jr. Upper School Building; the Middle School (Zavitz) Building; Kogod Center for the Arts; Richard Walter Goldman Memorial Library; Zartman House (administration building); Sensner Building (maintenance services and school store); the Wannan and Kenworthy Gymnasiums; three athletic fields; eight tennis courts; and a six-lane track.

The five-acre Edgemoor Lane campus in Bethesda includes the Manor House (classrooms, administration, and Clark Library), the Groome Building (classrooms and multi-purpose room), the Science, Art, and Music (SAM) Building, the Bethesda Friends Meeting House, and athletic fields and play areas.

During the 2005-2006 school year, 1,091 students (555 boys and 536 girls) are enrolled. Thirty-nine percent of the student body are students of color. Twenty-one percent of the student body receive some form of financial assistance. The School employs 147 teachers and 103 administrative and support staff. Tuitions for the 2005-2006 school year are $23,545 (prekindergarten-grade 4) and $24,545 (grades 5-12). 

Sidwell Friends School does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, or sexual orientation in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid and loan programs, physical education program, or other School-sponsored programs and activities, or in the hiring and terms of employment of faculty and staff. Except for special consideration that may be given to members of The Religious Society of Friends, the School does not discriminate on the basis of religion in any of these respects. The School is a member of the Friends Council on Education and is accredited by both the Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Sidwell Friends is committed as an institution to the ideal of diversity with regard to race, ethnicity, religion, economics, gender, sexual orientation and physical disability in its student body, faculty and staff.

Rev. 02/22/2006