Friends School Mullica Hill | Mullica Hill, New Jersey

We are an independent Quaker school empowering our students with a joyful, holistic, values-based education to last a lifetime. Through the Quaker guiding testimonies of Community, Peace, Simplicity, Integrity, Equality, and Stewardship, we support all to achieve their full potential and share their natural gifts with the world.

To nourish the development of the whole child, our curriculum includes musical, artistic, and physical education, along with classes in technology, science, and Spanish from Pre-K through 8th grade.

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50th Timeline: September, 1970 – A New Era Commences

Nov 15, 2019

The great drama of the summer of 1970 discussed in the last post left the Board, the staff, and parent volunteers exhausted but also exultant as they opened School that Fall. On September 13th, Friends School Mullica Hill opened its first year as a truly independent school. There were 289 enrolled students from 3-year old children to 12th graders. Tuition ranged from $475 in Pre-Kindergarten...

50th Timeline: The Summer of 1970 – The Work of a Lifetime

Nov 8, 2019

The decision to separate from Woodbury described in the last post led to an explosion of activity in the summer of 1970. Charles Francis Adams, descendant of two Presidents and the ambassador to Great Britain during the 1860s, wrote that during the Civil War he did every day something that would have been, before the war, the most important act of his year. This may have been what it felt like...

50th Timeline: May 3, 1970 – Separation and Independence

Nov 1, 2019

The year of two campuses described in the last post ended sourly for some. Tensions between those working on expanding the School and those in Woodbury Monthly Meeting developed during the year and led to a dramatic meeting of the Friends School Corporation and the Woodbury Friends School Committee on May 3, 1970. At that difficult Meeting, it was agreed that the relationship could not...