The preschool classroom at United Friends School follows an emergent, project-based curriculum. Seasonal nature studies guide interactive and exploratory learning with an ever-changing nature table, themed story times, gardening, and abundant play in the mud kitchen and outdoor classroom. The preschool program is a 5-day program with a full-day or half-day option. Children in half-day leave after lunch (8:15am – 1:00pm). Full Day preschool offers time after lunch to relax, unwind, and nap before children are dismissed to their parents.

Our Full-Day Kindergarten program keeps our kindergarteners as active as possible as they learn how to increase their capacity to focus on tasks and lessons for longer periods of time. Students graduate to the same schedule as their elementary peers.

Small Classrooms

UFS provides a small classroom environment where teachers can support the needs of the individual learner. Students learn how to read through a structured literacy program, beginning with the basic skills of phonemic awareness and phonics. As students grow, they continue to build skills in fluency, comprehension, making connections, predictions, and inferring skills.

The classroom offers a project-based curriculum where students gain knowledge from hands-on exploration, investigating solutions to authentic, engaging, and complex topics. UFS takes it a step further to deepen knowledge through one on one, and classroom discussion while sharing methods and strategies with their fellow peers. UFS provides a safe, caring environment where students can be themselves while learning to be culturally responsive.

United Friends School is proud to offer a Private Independent Middle School for grades 6-8. The middle school program supports students not only academically, but socially, emotionally, and spiritually. As a Quaker school, educators use dialogue, reflection, and inquiry to develop meaningful connections to learning in the classroom. The Middle School classroom environment prioritizes small class sizes where individual attention is supreme to focus on each student’s individual needs and interests. Classes are mixed-grade and provide students, with challenging student-centered lessons in Quakerism, Humanities (Language Arts and Social Studies), Math, and Science.