The Race Street Meetinghouse, built in 1856, is used by students and faculty for Meeting for Worship each Wednesday and Thursday.

[5]) and a Select School for Girls opened in the meeting house on 12th Street at 20 South 12th St.

Once school closed in the sixth month of 1967, preparations were made to move to the Central YMCA located at 1421 Arch Street.

Construction had proceeded far enough for classes to move into the uncompleted new school building when Christmas break ended following New Year's Day, 1969.

Class size usually ranges from 12 to 20 students, with assistant teachers providing additional support in pre-kindergarten through grade three.

Students have separate teachers for English, history, mathematics, science, and world languages.

Music is a multi-tiered program offering singing, Orff instruments, movement and at least two stage performances per year.

These revolve around thematic studies, or might simply be songs, skits, or dances that develop from students’ collective creativity.

Artists chosen recently have included ceramist, naturalist, painter and printer Walter Inglis Anderson, sculptor and teacher Selma Burke, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, illustrator and author Charles Santore, ceramist Josefina Aguilar, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, and designer and director Julie Taymor.

Offerings in the performing arts include Choir, Introduction to Directing, Instrumental Ensemble and American Music in the 20th century.

In year two of the Interdisciplinary Sequence, ninth grade students study at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

There, students select a work of art from the Medieval to Renaissance periods as their research focus.

The culmination of the course is an evening at the museum, where each student presents a detailed and comprehensive description of a work of art to an audience of parents, friends, faculty and museum-goers.

It may include the literary magazine, mainstage theater, student government, peer tutoring, movie night and more.

In ninth and tenth grades, all students are required to participate in at least one season of after-school sports or in one theatrical production.