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Friends School of Minnesota is a K-8 progressive education school grounded in Quaker values. FSMN was founded in 1988 and is located in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, convenient to South Minneapolis. We are a diverse community with students from a broad range of religious and non-religious backgrounds, including ten percent from Quaker families.

Math at FSMN – A Thoughtful and Progressive Approach

At Friends School of Minnesota, our approach is rooted in progressive education philosophy, recognizing that real learning arises from being actively engaged in the process of constructing knowledge rather than rote memorization of content. Students learn how to learn in addition to moving through curricular benchmarks. We offer a diversity of experiences and perspectives in […] Read more

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History Day 2024

A Visit From A LibrarianAfter topics were chosen and thesis statements were written and approved, Mike and Chrissy, FSMN’s humanities teachers, invited a librarian from the U of M’s Wilson Library to come in to teach our students how to find sources on the U’s library catalog and on ELibrary Minnesota.  A Field Trip To […] Read more

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Wow! ISACS Survey – What We Learned

Results Any School Would Be Proud OfThe results were exciting, affirming, and helpful. They will help us lean into what we are doing really well and improve what we need to work on. Thanks again to everyone who completed the survey.  Overall we scored very well. To measure success, ISACS reporting focused on the responses that […] Read more

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Integrity – This Year’s Testimony for FGRJ

At Friends School of Minnesota, we continuously explore our commitment to these values and what they mean to the daily life of our school. These values are a lens guiding our classroom studies, offering new or unique perspectives. During meeting for worship, these values provide a point of reflection for anchoring our silence– with an […] Read more

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