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Friends' Central School (FCS) has been consistently ranked among the best-performing academic, athletic, and artistic college-preparatory schools in Greater Philadelphia. It is a Quaker school which educates students from Nursery through Grade 12 and is located in Wynnewood, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia.〔http://friendscentral.org〕〔"(Community Profile )." Lower Merion Township. Retrieved on April 30, 2014. (contains maps of Lower Merion).〕 The school was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia, near the current location of the United States Mint and currently has an enrollment of more than 800 students from Nursery to grade 12. Informally known as "Friends' Central," the school encompasses three divisions: Lower School (nursery through 5th grades), Middle School (6th through 8th) and Upper School (9th through 12th). The Middle and Upper Schools share a campus, and the Lower School occupies its own site. The school is widely known for the quality of its education, consistently as one of the top schools in the Philadelphia area.〔http://www.suburbanlifemagazine.com/articles/?articleid=194〕〔http://www.phillymag.com/articles/philadelphia_magazine_top_schools_2006/〕 ==History== Friends' Central School was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia at 4th Street and Cherry Street, serving as an upper school for the Quaker primary schools with grades 7 through 12. In 1857, the school moved to 15th and Race Street, remaining at this location until 1925, when it then moved to its current campus on City Avenue (formerly the Wistar Morris Estate). The main house of the estate, constructed in 1862, remains and serves as the administrative building of the school as well as an architectural focal point of the campus. In 1988, due to the growth of the student body, Friends' Central acquired the Montgomery School's property and relocated the lower school there.〔http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/first300/part16.html〕 Recent expansion includes construction of the Shimada Athletic Center (2000) and the Fannie Cox Center for Science, Math and Technology (2003).〔http://www.friendscentral.org/about/who/faq〕 In 2011, David Felsen retired after 23 years of service as headmaster;〔http://www.friendscentral.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&tn=David+M.+Felsen+Announces+His+Retirement&nid=693615&ptid=42520&sdb=True&pf=pglw&mode=0&vcm=True&rc=0〕 beginning in the 2012 school year, Craig Sellers was named Head of School.〔http://www.friendscentral.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&sdb=1&nid=752077&bl=/default.aspx〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friends' Central School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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