Imagine you’re on your school basketball team, working hard and dreaming of playing in the NBA or WNBA someday. Now imagine you find yourself playing on the court at the…
During the last week of January, while New York was enduring bitter cold temperatures, a group of brilliant MMFS 8th graders and lucky faculty and staff were on the annual…
Six upper school students represented MMFS at the 2025 Quaker Youth Leadership Conference, an annual event that brings together students from Quaker schools across the country. Every year the Friends…
Middle school homerooms are named after important Quakers. Some are well known historical figures like Bayard Rustin and Alice Paul, but only one homeroom namesake is a living figure. This…
What makes MMFS unique among NYC special education schools? For one thing, Mary McDowell Friends School is the only Quaker school for students with learning disabilities in New York City.…
In May 2024, I began working toward an Advanced Certificate in Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Through the generosity of the MMFS Parents Association, I received…
Gabrielle Fox-Denize (MMFS ’14) was a student in MMFS’s first graduating class. We are thrilled to welcome her back as a staff member. Gabby is now part of the HR…
MMFS is a laboratory for innovative teaching. Our teachers are constantly striving to implement the best research and methods to help students with language-based learning disabilities succeed. To introduce parents…
I am deeply grateful to the Parents Association for sponsoring my participation in a class at Greenwich House Pottery. The six-week course, Mixed Level Mold Making and Slipcasting, covered techniques…
Since 2014, MMFS has been running a trip to the American South to visit some of the monuments, museums, and historic markers and sites of the Civil Rights movement. Last…
