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About Greenwood
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When you walk into Greenwood Friends School, you feel at home at school. Our open spaces, our engaged students, and our welcoming community all reach out to let you know that you have come to a unique place to learn. With strong core academics and integrated art, music, drama, and foreign language enrichments, GFS teaches children to think critically, work collaboratively, communicate confidently, and solve problems creatively in today’s changing world.
The Quaker principles of integrity, equality, community, simplicity, and peace guide our school’s daily life. Accredited by PAIS, Greenwood serves preschool through eighth grade students from a broad range of backgrounds. Our students reflect our area's ethnic, economic, and social diversity and are supported by Greenwood’s generous scholarship program. The school is located three miles east of Millville and serves families from 17 districts, including Benton, Berwick, Bloomsburg, Central Columbia, Danville, East Lycoming, Lewisburg, Millville, Milton, and Warrior Run.
Come visit us at Greenwood Friends. A warm welcome awaits you!
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To teach at Greenwood Friends School is to be planted in fertile soil. My first year at Greenwood sped by in a whirlwind of activity, with procedures and traditions to learn fresh, but I recognized immediately that I had found a place where I could use every bit of what I had learned in college and in previous teaching positions. Here I found a faculty committed to keeping up with the latest educational practices while staying loyal to the best of the tried and true. Here I found veteran teachers to offer guidance and advice. Here I found educators interested in designing and adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of the students – a true child-centered curriculum. I feel blessed to teach in an environment where academic standards are met through meaningful, hands-on, investigative learning, and where that learning happens across a rich curriculum that includes art, music, and physical education...
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Greenwood Mission Statement |
Greenwood Friends School teaches children to think critically, creatively, and compassionately. The school provides a challenging and supportive academic environment, guided by the Quaker principles of peace, integrity, equality, community, simplicity, and service. |
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Academics -
About Greenwood
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Founded
1978
Grade levels
Preschool (age 3) through 8th grade
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Accreditation & Affiliations |
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Accredited by:
Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS)
Affiliated with:
Friends Council on Education (FCE)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends |
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