History

Greene Street Friends School was founded in 1855 with the twin purposes of educating children in the Green Street Monthly Meeting and providing service to the community. Green Street Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends was originally located at Fourth and Green Streets (Green without an 'e') in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. In 1828, a small meetinghouse was erected in the neighborhood of Germantown on School House Lane. A new and much larger meetinghouse was built it its current location in 1854. When the School was founded in 1855, it occupied what was then the former meetinghouse. By 1876 there was sufficient interest in the School to warrant building our present gray stone schoolhouse on Greene Street. In the 1980s the School acquired a building on Armat Street to house the Middle School (grades 5-8). In 1997, former School Committee member Jack Asher and his partners donated a quarter-acre property to the School that serves as the School's Tree Lab. In 2002, the Meeting purchased a property on 61 West School House Lane for use as administrative offices. From its founding, the School has been noted for its warm, caring atmosphere and small size.