Greenwood Friends School

The Greenwood Friends School Scholars Program offers generous ongoing merit scholarships to new students entering 5th through 8th grade. Applicants must demonstrate:

• passion for learning

• compassion for others.

Up to seven students will be selected as Greenwood Scholars, each receiving tuition grants ranging from $2,100 to full tuition for each year they attend Greenwood Friends School.

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Greenwood Friends School is able to provide individualized instruction in a multi-age setting in part because of our small class size. Groupings include Pre-Primary (3-5 year olds), Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5) and Middle School (6-8). When a group includes more than 12 students, a lead teachers work together to plan and facilitate learning experiences. In grades K-8, students work in math groups of 5-7 students.

The following is a checklist for the Greenwood Friends School application/enrollment process for preschool students.
 

The following is a checklist for the Greenwood Friends School application/enrollment process for elementary and middle school students.
 

Greenwood strives to be accessible to students from families of any income level. All families are encouraged to apply for tuition assistance, which is available on a needs basis. New families may also be eligible for a community scholarship. Contact us for more details.

Children attend from several surrounding counties including: Columbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan, and Union.

Preschool students are usually transported by parents.

Children in kindergarten and above grades may be transported by parents, by car pool, by Greenwood van, or by home school district public busing. 

Benton, Bloomsburg, Central Columbia, Danville, East Lycoming, Millville, and Warrior Run districts bus students to GFS.

Greenwood provides transportation, for a fee, from the Lewisburg, Milton, and Berwick areas.

Parents provide transportation from Shamokin, Shikellamy, and Southern Columbia. 

Tuition covers about 80 percent of the cost of educating astudent at Greenwood Friends. Tuition income is supplemented by an AnnualGiving campaign, parent-assisted fundraisers, grants from Quaker organizations and othersources, Pennsylvania's EITC program, and help from the school's endowment fund.

At the preschool level, tuition is calculated per half-daysession. For students K-8, tuition is an annual charge. For families withmore than one child above preschool, a $1000 sibling discount is offered forall but the first child.

The school seeks to assure the presence of children from allbackgrounds and income levels. We offer need-based tuitionassistance beginning at the kindergarten level and encourage any familyfor whom tuition is a burden to apply for financial aid.

Tuition for the 2010-2011 school year

Pre-primary half day program (Tues/Thurs)-$1240

Pre-primary full day program (M/W/F)-$3720

Grades K-5-$8350

Grades 6-8-$8900

Sibling discount--$1000