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.
FSMN is committed to hands-on, experiential learning. This hands-on learning is impactful, and allows students to connect their learning with something real, as opposed to a virtual dissection or pictures. The discovery and learning bridges the human body system unit to the evolution unit, as students compare the human organs to the rats organs and […] Read more
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
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
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
