Greenwood Friends School

Greenwood Friends School is kicking off our 1st Annual Greenwood Scholars Program! This is an ambitious new program aimed at attracting motivated, mission appropriate, new middle school students. The Greenwood Scholars Program offers generous ongoing merit scholarships to new students entering 5th through 8th grade for the 2010- 2011 school year.

Greenwood Friends School is able to provide individualized instruction in a multi-age setting in part because of our small class size. Class groups this year vary from 7 in Preprimary to 15 in our Primary Group to 17 in our Intermediate/Middle School class. When a group includes more than 12 students, a lead teacher and a part-time cooperative teacher work together to plan and facilitate learning experiences. In grades 1-7, 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 a student at Greenwood Friends. Tuition income is supplemented by an Annual Giving campaign, parent-assisted fundraisers, grants from Quaker organizations and other sources, Pennsylvania's EITC program, and help from the school's endowment fund.

At the preschool level, tuition is calculated per half-day session. For students K-8, tuition is an annual charge. For families with more than one child above preschool, a significant tuition discount is offered for all but the first child.

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

Tuition for the 2009-2010 school year

Pre-primary half day program (Tues/Thurs)-$1200

Pre-primary full day program (M/W/F)-$3600

Grades K-5-$8100

Grades 6-8-$8900

Sibling discount--$1000