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Sidwell Friends School
The Sidwell Friends school building at 3825 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C.
Eluceat Omnibus Lux ("Let the light shine out from all")
Religious affiliation(s)
Quaker
Established
1883 (141 years ago) (1883)
CEEB code
090200
Head of school
Bryan K. Garman
Faculty
257
Grades
PK–12
Gender
Coeducational
Enrollment
1,152
Athletics conference
MAC (boys) ISL (girls)
Mascot
Fox
Team name
Quakers
Publication
The Oat (the satirical student newspaper) Quarterly (the art magazine) Student Political Review (student editorial newspaper)) Sidwell Business Review (student editorial newsletter)
Newspaper
Horizon
Website
sidwell.edu
Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through high school classes. Founded in 1883 by Thomas W. Sidwell, its motto is "Eluceat omnibus lux" (English: Let the light shine out from all), alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light. All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly, and middle school students begin every day with five minutes of silence.[1]
The school's admissions process is merit-based. As documented on the school's website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends, but otherwise does not discriminate on the basis of religion. Sidwell "accepts only 7 percent of its applicants."[2] The school accepts vouchers under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The school has educated children of notable politicians, including those of several presidents. President Theodore Roosevelt's son Archibald, President Richard Nixon's daughters Tricia and Julie, President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton, President Barack Obama's daughters Sasha and Malia, President Joe Biden's grandchildren when he was Vice President[3] and Vice President Al Gore's son, Albert Gore III, graduated from Sidwell Friends.
^"Sidwell Friends School: Middle School » Grades 7/8 » Typical Day". Archived from the original on October 5, 2012.
^"'Friends' for Life". Retrieved April 29, 2018.
^Wilgoren, Debbi (January 5, 2009). "Obama Girls Start School at Sidwell". The Washington Post.
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