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A-
Matriculation A
Academics B+
Extracurriculars B+
Community A+
Reviews B
Abington Friends School is a coeducational Quaker, college-preparatory school serving students from preschool through 12th grade. AFS is committed to achieving the critical balance between academic rigor and joy in learning. Founded in 1697, AFS develops the talents of each individual child, delivers the academic foundation required for success at the nation's top colleges and universities and emphasizes moral and spiritual development. AFS is known for its extraordinary arts program and atmosphere of collaboration as well as a full spectrum of curricular and co-curricular offerings. The AFS mission is founded on the conviction that a complete education couples clarity and power of thought with goodness of spirit.
We invite you to explore our website, come for a visit, and discover for yourself why AFS is such a venerable educational institution.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$49000
Enrollment
600
International Students
12%
Faculty with Advanced Degrees
76%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:8
Endowment
$5 millions
AP
13
Average SAT Score
1270
Average ACT Score
25.5
Class Size
13

Matriculation


Matriculation

(2020-2022)
Ranking University/College Students
#1 Princeton University 1
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
#3 Harvard College 1
#3 Stanford University 1
#3 Yale University 1
LAC #1 Williams College 1
#6 University of Chicago 1
#7 Johns Hopkins University 1
#7 University of Pennsylvania 1
#9 California Institute of Technology 1
#10 Duke University 1
#10 Northwestern University 1
LAC #2 Amherst College 1
#12 Dartmouth College 1
#13 Brown University 1
#13 Vanderbilt University 1
#15 Rice University 1
#15 Washington University in St. Louis 1
LAC #3 Pomona College 1
#17 Cornell University 1
#18 Columbia University 1
#20 University of California: Berkeley 1
LAC #4 Swarthmore College 1
#22 Carnegie Mellon University 1
#22 Emory University 1
#22 Georgetown University 1
#25 New York University 1
#25 University of Michigan 1
#25 University of Southern California 1
#25 University of Virginia 1
LAC #5 Wellesley College 1
#29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1
#29 Wake Forest University 1
LAC #6 Bowdoin College 1
LAC #6 Carleton College 1
#32 Tufts University 1
#34 University of California: San Diego 1
#36 Boston College 1
#36 University of Rochester 1
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1
#41 Boston University 1
#44 Brandeis University 1
#44 Case Western Reserve University 1
#44 Northeastern University 1
#44 Tulane University 1
LAC #9 Claremont McKenna College 1
#51 Lehigh University 1
#51 Purdue University 1
#51 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1
#51 Spelman College 1
#51 Villanova University 1
#55 Santa Clara University 1
#55 University of Miami 1
#55 University of Washington 1
LAC #11 Middlebury College 1
#62 George Washington University 1
#62 Syracuse University 1
#62 University of Pittsburgh 1
#62 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1
#63 St. Olaf College 1
LAC #13 Smith College 1
LAC #13 Vassar College 1
#67 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1
#72 American University 1
#72 Fordham University 1
#72 Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1
#72 Indiana University Bloomington 1
#72 Reed College 1
#72 Sarah Lawrence College 1
LAC #15 Davidson College 1
LAC #15 Grinnell College 1
LAC #15 Hamilton College 1
#76 College of Wooster 1
#76 Muhlenberg College 1
#77 Michigan State University 1
SUNY University at Stony Brook 1
#81 Earlham College 1
SUNY University at Binghamton 1
#84 Bennington College 1
#85 Lake Forest College 1
#85 Washington College 1
#89 Colorado School of Mines 1
#89 Elon University 1
#89 Howard University 1
#89 University of Delaware 1
#89 Ursinus College 1
LAC #18 Barnard College 1
LAC #18 Colgate University 1
LAC #18 Haverford College 1
LAC #18 Wesleyan University 1
#94 Lewis & Clark College 1
#105 Drexel University 1
#105 Rochester Institute of Technology 1
#105 University of San Francisco 1
#111 Goucher College 1
#111 Susquehanna University 1
#115 Fairfield University 1
#115 Loyola University Chicago 1
#120 Hampshire College 1
LAC #24 Colby College 1
#121 Chapman University 1
#121 Temple University 1
#121 University of Vermont 1
#124 Morehouse College 1
LAC #25 Bates College 1
#127 Illinois Institute of Technology 1
#127 Thomas Jefferson University: East Falls 1
LAC #27 Colorado College 1
LAC #27 Macalester College 1
LAC #29 Harvey Mudd College 1
#151 James Madison University 1
LAC #31 Bryn Mawr College 1
LAC #31 Kenyon College 1
#166 Hofstra University 1
#166 Quinnipiac University 1
#166 Xavier University 1
LAC #36 Mount Holyoke College 1
#182 Montclair State University 1
LAC #37 Bucknell University 1
LAC #39 Denison University 1
LAC #39 Lafayette College 1
LAC #39 Skidmore College 1
LAC #39 Trinity College 1
#219 Widener University 1
#234 Pace University 1
#234 University of Hartford 1
#234 West Virginia University 1
#250 West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1
LAC #51 Dickinson College 1
LAC #55 Connecticut College 1
#285 DeSales University 1
#299 Regent University 1
LAC #60 Bard College 1
LAC #61 Gettysburg College 1
#317 Alvernia University 1
Arcadia University 1
Babson College 1
Bentley University 1
Berklee College of Music 1
Brevard College 1
California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo 1
Clark Atlanta University 1
Cleveland Institute of Music 1
College of William and Mary 1
Community College of Philadelphia 1
Deep Springs College-Dyer-NV 1
Emerson College 1
Fashion Institute of Technology 1
Franklin & Marshall College 1
Guilford College 1
High Point University 1
Ithaca College 1
Loyola University Maryland 1
Manhattan College 1
Maryland Institute College of Art 1
McDaniel College 1
McGill University 1
Millersville University of Pennsylvania 1
Monmouth University 1
Montgomery County Community College 1
Moore College of Art and Design 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Northern Vermont University 1
Oberlin College 1
Penn State Abington 1
Pratt Institute 1
Rhode Island School of Design 1
Roger Williams University 1
Saint Bonaventure University 1
Saint Joseph's University 1
Savannah College of Art and Design 1
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1
St. John's University 1
Stevenson University 1
Texas State University 1
the colburn school conservatory of music 1
The New School College of Performing Arts 1
Towson University 1
University of British Columbia 1
University of Colorado Boulder 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1
University of Scranton 1
University of the Sciences 1
University of Toronto 1
Warren Wilson College 1
Western Kentucky University 1
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2022 2020-2021 2018-2019 2015-2016 2013-2015 Total
All schools 91 45 40 61 38
#1 Princeton University 1 1 1 + 3
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 1 + 2
#3 Harvard College 1 1 + 1 + 3
#3 Stanford University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#5 Yale University 1 1 1 + 1 + 4
#6 University of Pennsylvania 1 1 1 1 + 1 + 5
#7 Duke University 1 1 1 3
#7 California Institute of Technology 1 1 1 3
#9 Northwestern University 1 1 1 3
#9 Brown University 1 1 1 1 1 5
#9 Johns Hopkins University 1 1 1 + 3
#12 University of Chicago 1 1 1 1 + 4
#12 Cornell University 1 1 1 1 4
#12 Columbia University 1 1 + 1 3
#15 University of California: Los Angeles 1 1
#15 University of California: Berkeley 1 1 + 2
#17 Rice University 1 1 1 + 1 + 4
#18 Vanderbilt University 1 1 1 1 + 4
#18 Dartmouth College 1 1 1 1 4
#21 University of Michigan 1 1 1 + 3
#22 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1 1 + 1 3
#22 Georgetown University 1 1 1 + 3
#24 Carnegie Mellon University 1 1 1 + 3
#24 University of Virginia 1 1 1 + 3
#24 Emory University 1 1 1 + 1 4
#24 Washington University in St. Louis 1 1 1 + 3
#28 University of California: San Diego 1 1 + 1 + 3
#28 University of Southern California 1 1 1 3
#28 University of California: Davis 1 + 1
#28 University of Florida 1 + 1
#35 New York University 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#35 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 1
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1 1 2
#39 Boston College 1 1 2
#40 Tufts University 1 1 1 1 1 + 5
#40 University of Washington 1 1 1 3
#43 Boston University 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1 1 1 3
#47 University of Rochester 1 1 1 1 + 1 + 5
#47 Lehigh University 1 1 1 + 3
#47 Wake Forest University 1 1 1 1 + 4
#51 Purdue University 1 1 + 2
#53 College of William and Mary 1 1 1 + 1 + 4
#53 Case Western Reserve University 1 1 2
#53 Northeastern University 1 1 1 3
#57 Penn State University Park 1 + 1 + 2
#58 SUNY University at Stony Brook 1 1 2
#58 University of Connecticut 1 1
#60 Michigan State University 1 1 2
#60 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 1 1 + 3
#60 Brandeis University 1 1 1 1 + 4
#60 Santa Clara University 1 1
#67 University of Miami 1 1 + 1 3
#67 Syracuse University 1 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#67 George Washington University 1 1 1 + 1 + 4
#67 University of Pittsburgh 1 1 + 1 + 1 1 + 5
#67 Villanova University 1 1 2
#67 University of Massachusetts Amherst 1 + 1
#73 Tulane University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#73 SUNY University at Binghamton 1 1
#73 Indiana University Bloomington 1 1 + 1 3
#76 Colorado School of Mines 1 1 1 + 3
#76 University of Delaware 1 1 1 3
#82 University of California: Santa Cruz 1 + 1
#82 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 1
#89 Fordham University 1 1 + 1 3
#89 Temple University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#96 University of Alabama 1 1
#98 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 1
#98 Drexel University 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 5
#98 Illinois Institute of Technology 1 1 2
#105 American University 1 1 1 + 1 + 1 5
#105 University of Colorado Boulder 1 1 1 3
#115 University of San Francisco 1 1 1 3
#115 Howard University 1 1 2
#124 James Madison University 1 1 1 3
#124 Fairfield University 1 1 2
#133 Chapman University 1 1 2
#133 Elon University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#133 University of Vermont 1 1 1 + 3
#142 Clark University 1 1 + 1 3
#142 Thomas Jefferson University: East Falls 1 1 2
#142 Loyola University Chicago 1 1 1 3
#163 St. John's University 1 1 2
#163 Montclair State University 1 1 + 2
#170 Quinnipiac University 1 1
#185 Hofstra University 1 1
#201 The New School College of Performing Arts 1 1 1 3
#201 Xavier University 1 1
#209 West Chester University of Pennsylvania 1 1 + 1 + 3
#209 Sacred Heart University 1 1
#216 West Virginia University 1 1 2
#227 Widener University 1 1
#249 Pace University 1 1 2
#260 Gwynedd Mercy University 1 + 1
#280 DeSales University 1 1
#280 Texas State University 1 1
#296 Alvernia University 1 1
#304 University of Hartford 1 1 2
#361 Western Kentucky University 1 1 2
#361 Clark Atlanta University 1 1 2
#369 Regent University 1 1 2
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 1 + 1 1 + 4
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2022 2020-2021 2018-2019 2015-2016 2013-2015 Total
All schools 55 19 17 22 26
#1 Williams College 1 1 + 1 + 3
#2 Amherst College 1 1 1 1 + 4
#4 Swarthmore College 1 1 + 2
#4 Pomona College 1 1 2
#4 Wellesley College 1 1 1 + 3
#9 Carleton College 1 1 2
#9 Bowdoin College 1 1 1 3
#11 Grinnell College 1 1 1 + 3
#11 Claremont McKenna College 1 1 2
#11 Barnard College 1 1 1 1 + 4
#11 Middlebury College 1 1 1 + 3
#11 Wesleyan University 1 1 1 + 3
#16 Vassar College 1 1 1 + 3
#16 Smith College 1 1 1 + 1 + 4
#16 Davidson College 1 1
#16 Harvey Mudd College 1 1 + 2
#16 Hamilton College 1 1 1 3
#21 Colgate University 1 1 + 1 3
#21 Haverford College 1 1 2
#22 United States Military Academy 1 1
#24 Bates College 1 1 1 + 3
#25 Colby College 1 1 1 1 4
#27 Macalester College 1 1 + 2
#30 Bryn Mawr College 1 1 + 1 + 1 4
#30 Bucknell University 1 1 + 1 + 3
#30 Lafayette College 1 1 + 2
#33 Colorado College 1 1
#34 Mount Holyoke College 1 1 2
#35 Franklin & Marshall College 1 1 + 1 1 + 4
#38 Skidmore College 1 1 + 1 + 3
#39 Denison University 1 1 2
#39 Kenyon College 1 1 + 1 + 3
#39 Trinity College 1 1 1 + 3
#39 Spelman College 1 1 + 2
#46 Dickinson College 1 1 + 1 3
#46 Connecticut College 1 1 2
#46 Whitman College 1 1 1 + 3
#51 St. Olaf College 1 1 2
#63 Gettysburg College 1 1 1 1 4
#67 Reed College 1 1 2
#70 Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1 1
#70 Muhlenberg College 1 1 + 1 3
#72 Bard College 1 1 1 1 4
#73 Lake Forest College 1 1 2
#86 Ursinus College 1 1 + 1 3
#93 Lewis & Clark College 1 1
#93 Washington College 1 1 2
#100 Sarah Lawrence College 1 1 + 1 3
#100 Morehouse College 1 1
#100 Earlham College 1 1
#107 Susquehanna University 1 1 2
#112 Bennington College 1 1
#124 Goucher College 1 1 + 2
#139 Hampshire College 1 1 2
#167 Guilford College 1 1 2
Warren Wilson College 1 1
Oberlin College 1 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2022 2020-2021 2018-2019 2015-2016 2013-2015 Total
All schools 3 0 0 0 0
#1 University of Toronto 1 1
#2 University of British Columbia 1 1
#3 McGill University 1 1

AP Scores

(2019)
Number of tests taken
142
38%
27%
23%
Score 5
Score 4
Score 3
Other scores

Academics

AP

(13)
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
French Language and Culture
Spanish Language and Culture
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
French Language and Culture
Spanish Language and Culture
Physics 1
United States History
English Language and Composition
Computer Science Principles
Statistics
English Literature and Composition
Studio Art: 2-D Design
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Sports

(12)
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Ultimate Frisbee
Wrestling
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Arts

(13)
Band
Chorus
Jazz
Music
Music Theory
Theater
Band
Chorus
Jazz
Music
Music Theory
Theater
Ceramics
Computer Graphic
Drawing
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
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Basic Info

Co-ed
Day S. Grades: Preschool-12
Urban
ESL: No
Year Founded: 1697
Campus Size: 50 acres
Religious Affiliation: Quaker

Application Info

Deadline: Rolling
Interview: Skype, On Campus
Other Accepted Scores: ISEE
School Code:
SSAT: 1030
ISEE: 391915
Recommended
Recommended
Boarding
George School United States Flag
4.5

Frequently Ask Questions about Abington Friends School

Tell me a bit about Abington Friends School.
Abington Friends School is Co-ed private day school located in Pennsylvania, US. It was founded 1697 , and currently has about 600 students, 12.00% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit http://www.abingtonfriends.net.
Does Abington Friends School have rigorous academic requirements?
Abington Friends School is offering 13 AP courses.

In recent years, 27 of their students score 4 and 5 in AP exams.

Abington Friends School also have 76% of faculties whose degrees are master and above.
Where do Abington Friends School students typically go for their colleges?
Based on the most recent matriculation data, 7.25% go to top 50 US universities and colleges*, 13.53% go to top 25, and about 3.86% go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.

*Ranking is based on the 2024 US News College Ranking.
What is the application requirement for Abington Friends School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, Abington Friends School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for Abington Friends School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for Abington Friends School in 2024 is $49,000 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at jupmeyer@abingtonfriends.net .
Where is Abington Friends School located?
Abington Friends School is located in the State of Pennsylvania of USA. The closest major city is Philadelphia, which is about 10 miles away from school. Most families can choose Philadelphia International Airport to travel in and out of school.
How popular is Abington Friends School on FindingSchool network?
Based on FindingSchool monthly traffic data as well as onsite search record, Abington Friends School is among the most popular schools, within top 137 for all schools on FindingSchool.

Also Abington Friends School has been favorited by 185 users.
How to start with an application with Abington Friends School?
The first stop is to carefully review the school profile on FindingSchool to learn more about Abington Friends School. Most of them are directly provided by the school.

Also it is highly recommended to visit Abington Friends School’s official site: http://www.abingtonfriends.net or call them at 215-576-3950.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to Abington Friends School?
Yes, here are few: St. Basil Academy, St. Luke The Evangelist School and Bishop McDevitt High School (Wyncote).

The closest major city is Philadelphia. You can find out more schools near Philadelphia here.
What is the FindingSchool rating for Abington Friends School?
The overall rating for Abington Friends School is A-.

The section ratings of Abington Friends School are:
A for Matriculation
B+ for Academics
B+ for Extracurriculum
A+ for Community
B for Students and Parents reviews

Nearby City

Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania, holds a pivotal place in U.S. history. Once the nation's capital, it is home to iconic landmarks such as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. With a population of 1,603,797 as of the 2020 census, Philadelphia is a hub for arts, culture, and education. The city is known for its rich history, diverse neighborhoods, and vibrant arts scene. It also plays a major role in life sciences, business, and industry, making it a key city in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Population (2022) 1,447,395
Cost of Living Higher than average 7%

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