COME TO OUR NEXT OPEN HOUSE!

Come find out about our exciting new program for 6th and 7th grade students!

Plan to attend our next Open House, Friday, March 2, 2012, from 2:00-4:00 pm.

Come learn about our new STEM curriculum and tuition guarantee for 2012-2013.
Find out what a difference a Friends education can make in your child's life and success!
Please call (703) 461-7222 to reserve your spot, or to set up an appointment. You are always welcome to visit our school.

NEWS FLASH! Help us Make our Challenge Grant!

So far our Fall Campaign has brought in $4,697 toward making the $5,000 challenge grant for the Annual Fund! ($303 to go)

Donate today and support current pressing needs for deserving AFS students.

GET TO KNOW ALEXANDRIA FRIENDS SCHOOL

Watch our videos and learn more about Alexandria Friends School and the difference it makes in its students' lives.

Alexandria Friends School Offers Exciting New Program!

Beginning in the fall of 2012, Alexandria Friends School will offer an integrated college preparatory course including our new STEM curriculum (science, technology, engineering, and math) to students in grades 6 and 7. The school will then add grades each year thereafter through grade 12 (we will temporarily end our high school operations at the close of the 2011-2012 school year). The new program will feature:

STEM curriculum coordinated with
English and social studies courses
10-15 students at each grade level
Each student will have an i-Pad
After school arts enrichment program to 5 pm (an optional extra)
Guaranteed tuition; your tuition will not go up as long as your child is continuously enrolled

Our Fall Newsletter will soon be available. If you are not getting a copy, please let us have your e-mail address and we will gladly forward it to you. Hook me up! >>

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, December 13: AFS Board Meeting

Friday, December 16: Service Learning, Gift Exchange, and Holiday Party

Monday-Friday, December 19-30 and Monday, January 2: Winter Holiday no school

See our CALENDAR page for more events. Please call us at (703) 461-7222 if you have any questions prior to AFS events.

Welcome to Alexandria Friends School!

Students who come to AFS find that they enjoy going to school. Here they discover a place where they are appreciated for who they are. Our "compassionately relentless" staff is dedicated to helping every student succeed and realize her or his personal best. We accomplish this by:

Restoring hope to students and their families, especially those for whom other educational environments might not be working;
Respecting the individual student and his/her learning style;
Understanding each student's need for classroom success;
Combining traditional education with innovative approaches for each student; and
Celebrating the unique gifts each individual brings to our school.

At AFS, we succeed with students whom other schools have not reached. Let us help your student connect to his/her natural curiosity and innate love of learning. Come in and learn more about us >>

Why seek a Friends education for your child?

For over 320 years, Friends schools have been educating American youth.

Read an article in TIME Magazine recognizing the value of a Friends education.

What are people saying about Alexandria Friends School?

"Finding the Alexandria Friends School was a godsend! Our ADD son was convinced that he was 'stupid' (which his IQ scores belied) and absolutely hated school. He looks forward to school everyday and is doing well in subjects that were previously a challenge. When I asked what the difference was at Alexandria Friends, he said: '...the teachers treat us and respect us like equals.' It seems it is this one single element that has helped unlock my son's natural love of learning again. He is even learning to love subjects that he thought he had no interest in.

Artist Erik Dillinger (left), a graphics designer for George
Lucas' special effects company, Industrial Light and
Magic, comments on student artwork during an afternoon
presentation in a Renaissance class.

While the small enrollment size was initially of concern, I now realize that it is a gift... like having private tutors and mentors. As Yeats said, 'Education is not so much the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.' We are so pleased that AFS is providing the perfect 'match' for our son!"

–L.C., Falls Church