Germantown Friends School

Germantown Friends School is a day school in Philadelphia serving over 1,000 students from pre-K through grade 12. The school's Quaker foundation shapes its core mission: seeking truth, honoring differences, and nurturing each student's mind, body, and spirit. Faculty work in a community built explicitly on mutual respect, where the belief that each person holds an inner light worth discovering translates into daily practice.

Teaching here differs from residential independent schools in practical ways. You live in the greater Philadelphia area, maintain defined work hours, and return home each evening. Yet you remain deeply involved in student life. Faculty teach, advise, coach, and lead clubs—the full range of school involvement—without the live-on-campus expectation that defines New England boarding schools. This model suits educators who want meaningful school engagement and genuine community connection alongside personal time and local roots.

Germantown Friends School maintains substantial language offerings: American Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, and Latin. The school also values arts, sciences, humanities, and athletic coaching across all divisions. Urban location is an asset here. Philadelphia itself becomes a teaching resource—museums, civic institutions, neighborhoods—in ways that suburban or rural schools cannot match.

The school recruits year-round for faculty and staff roles. Elementary, middle, and high school divisions all hire regularly, along with administrative and support positions. Day-school teaching in an urban Quaker setting appeals to candidates seeking intellectual rigor, genuine diversity of thought, and work-life balance in a values-driven environment.