Our program provides outstanding preparation for high
school. 90% of our students attend private or parochial
high schools upon graduating from our 8th grade. The overwhelming
majority of our graduates are able to attend the school
of their first choice.
After graduating from high school our students enroll
successfully for admission at some of the most competitive
colleges and universities in the United States. Currently,
a partial list of colleges and universities attended by
our graduates includes: Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, The
University of Pennsylvania, Brown , Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore,
Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Earlham, Drew, Colgate, Sarah Lawrence,
Vassar, Villanova, St. Joseph’s, Skidmore, Ohio Wesleyan,
Dennison, the University of Maryland, William and Mary,
the University of Michigan, the College of New Jersey ,
and Rutgers. Our alumni are actively involved in
the life of the school. Five of our current faculty are
Friends School Mullica Hill alumni. Members of our alumni
also serve on the school’s Board of Trustees.
Over 80% of our middle school students participate in
interscholastic sports.
Friends School administers as its standardized test,
the ERB (Educational Records Bureau) Test. This test is
primarily administered by independent schools in 41 states.
We use this test because it more accurately monitors student
progress in the demanding curriculum of a private school
like ours.
We participate annually in the Johns Hopkins University
Talented Youth Search Program. 35% of our students qualify
for this program each year based upon their scores on the
ERB Test. Students who qualify are eligible for the Johns
Hopkins Summer Enrichment Programs.
Each year, our kindergarten students and teachers lead
the entire school in the student of the Monarch Butterfly
and its migration. Kindergarten students raise and observe
monarchs in their classrooms, observing and reporting upon
each stage of the Monarch’s life. The fully grown
Monarch’s are released to migrate to Mexico in the
culminating event of the project, the Butterfly Parade.
Every Friends School student is involved in community
service. The school collaborates with a number of aid organizations
including: the Heifer Project, the American Friends Service
Committee, UNICEF, and Leaven House. We are most proud of
the work our students conduct with the Gloucester County
Association of Retarded Citizens. The school has twice received
a community service award from the ARC.
As a part of the Friends School New Jersey Symposium,
our 4th graders interview Japanese-American adults who were
in internment camps as children in the West during World
War II and then moved here to work at Seabrook Farms. The
students prepare papers based on their interviews to present
at the symposium.
