Sidwell Friends

The community salutes beloved and retiring faculty, who have collectively served the School for more than a century.

Despite everything, Sidwell Friends had a stellar year in athletics.

The Sidwell Friends community gathered to do what we’ve done for decades as we strive for peace and healing during difficult times: We folded.

Yamaoka-san and the responsibility of survivorship.

Paper cranes return to campus in a Pan-Asian celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 

The 8th grade closing ceremony celebrated the class of 2025's signature grace, kindness, and humor.

Mei Xu (P ’19, ’21) discusses memory, candles, innovation, and the bamboo ceiling at a recent Conversations with Friends.

It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you that former head of school and trustee Robert Lawrence Smith died peacefully early Monday, May 24, at the age of 96 at his home in Bethesda.

The Sidwell Friends Medical Advisory Team and Neeknaz Abari ’16 were honored for their extraordinary spirit of community service and dedication during the COVID pandemic.

Reunion 2021 brought alumni together with faculty, friends, and one special musical guest.

On Grandparents Days, Sidwell Friends grandparents joined their students for music, classes, Meeting for Worship, and more.

Nia Brown ’22 thought of a way to get more books by and about people of color into the hands of local elementary school students. Now her program has won $500 from LearnServe International.

The Lower School celebrated the return of Field Day—and of the 4th graders.

Sidwell Friends guest artist Suzanne Firstenberg delivers the Rubenstein lecture and tackles the pandemic, empathy, and thousands of unfinished stories.

Meet Silvana Niazi, the inaugural Señora Guillermina Medrano de Supervía Endowed Faculty Chair for Spanish and Latin American Studies.