[3] Because of FFS's commitment to socio-economic diversity, the Board sets a tuition fee that is the lowest of any Quaker school in the Delaware Valley.
Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students learn through review skills and concepts in math, literacy, handwriting, social studies, and science in one-to-one (teacher/student) or small groups.
[clarification needed] The curriculum provides a variety of musical and visual arts electives, STEM classes, and foreign language studies.
FFS was established on its present site in 1833 when Frankford Monthly Meeting members purchased a large parcel of land spanning from what is now Orthodox Street to Leiper Avenue, for the sum of $1,777.07.
Eventually, a free-standing, one-room schoolhouse was constructed in 1890 to accommodate the growing numbers of students in the post-Civil War era.
Beginning in 2012, the construction of the Margaret Passmore Trickey building allowed 7th and 8th graders to learn along with the other students on campus.
[citation needed] In 2023, FFS began planning for a satellite campus to house a new preschool in the Fishtown/Kensington Area of Philadelphia, to open in early winter 2024.