By Lydia Wilcox ’21, Reporter 2-14-20 Spirit Week 2020 was a huge success. The week went out with a bang on Saturday with Friends’ Central’s first-ever Snowc...

By: Casper Hoffmann ’21 2-14-20 Every Valentine’s Day at FCS, classes are interrupted by the Foxtones and Gracenotes singing short renditions of love songs, w...

By: Ha-Eun Choi ‘21 Our club, known as Radio Phoenix, is a part of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) from West Virginia University, which is made up of h...

By: Will Bozman '21 and Benny Flora '20 (Guest Contributors) Sup fellas, fella-esses, and everything in between. It’s Rocko. Your boy? No. The boy. I’m here ...

By Vicky Liu ‘20 On the New Year’s Eve of January 24th, the annual Lunar New Year Assembly presented a visual feast to the audience at Friends’ Central Schoo...

By: Vicky Liu ‘20 As the Distinguished Visiting Justice Leader of 2019, Dr. Steven Larson visited Friends’ Central School on Oct. 29th. Dr. Larson’s was the ...

By: Natalie Neuhaus, Reporter '21 Throughout the past decade, Friends’ Central has continued to bring new and positive changes into many aspects of the schoo...

By Sophia David and Natalie Neuhaus This fall Kayla Camacho, a recent graduate of Swarthmore college, has become one of our two makerspace directors. We inte...

Friends' Central's new Cafeteria

By: Vicky Liu ’20, School News and Features Reporter This school year, Ms. Megan Schumacher has returned to Friends’ Central, where, from 2003 to 2012, she s...

By: Sophia David, Editor-in-Chief '21 Mr. Bowers is a new art teacher at Friends’ Central this year. He teaches Studio Art 1, Studio Art 2, Design Evolution,...

By: Natalie Neuhaus For those new to the Upper School, you have most likely not met Ms. K. Ms. K is one of our amazing English teachers here. Ms. K has been ...

By: Julian Brenman ’20, Editor-in-Chief “I’m not sure I’ll have this opportunity again if I don’t take it now. I’m trying to grab life by the horns and take ...

By: Lydia Wilcox On Friday, Sept. 20th, 2019, thousands of protestors gathered in Center City Philadelphia to demand action on the issue of climate change. C...

By: Max Marinelli ‘22 I was given the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Maryclaire D'Orazio, our beloved Upper School Administrative Assistant for this edition of...

My first impression of Betsy was a little odd. I came from a school in the city and Betsy was on of the first teachers at FCS I encountered. They were a bit ...

By: Ms. Hilary Takiff- Weiss, Guest Contributor Ms. Murphy, a talented artist as well as a skilled and dedicated teacher, brought a lot to FCS this year and w...

By: Dylan Mitchell, Guest Writer and Former Reporter I've had a lot of teachers at FCS, but there are very few, if any, who can quite match up to the amount ...

By Katia Campos ‘22 FOCUS News Reporter With summer almost here, the teachers here at Friends Central welcome spring with open arms. For this article, FOCUS ...