Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker private school located in Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland. It was founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell.

Current profile

• 2004-2005 school year: 1,091 students (563 boys and 528 girls) are enrolled
• 38% of the student body are students of color
• 20% of the student body receive some form of financial assistance
• The School employs 145 teachers and 98 administrative and support staff
• Tuitions for the 2004-2005 school year are $21,415 (prekindergarten-grade 4) and $22,415 (grades 5-12).

Campuses

Washington D.C.

• 15 acre (61,000 m²) Wisconsin Avenue campus in the Tenleytown section of Northwest Washington
• Earl G. Harrison Jr. Upper School Building
• the Middle School (Zavitz) Building
• Kogod Center for the Arts
• Richard Walter Goldman Memorial Library
• Zartman House (administration building)
• Sensner Building (maintenance services and school store)
• Wannan and Kenworthy Gymnasiums
• Three athletic fields, eight tennis courts, and a six-lane track.

Bethesda, MD

• 5 acre (20,000 m²) Edgemoor Lane campus in Bethesda
• Manor House (classrooms, administration, and Clark Library)
• Groome Building (classrooms and multi-purpose room)
• Science, Art, and Music (SAM) Building
• The Bethesda Friends Meeting House
• Athletic fields and play areas.

Alumni

Distinguished alumni of Sidwell Friends include:

• William Henry Harrison (representative) ('14 or '15), Republican Representative from Wyoming (note: this was President William Henry Harrison's great-great-grandson)
• Robert Carter Cook ('16 or '17), director of the American Eugenics Society[1]
• Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky , Soviet ambassador to the United Nations
• Hanna Holborn Gray ('47 or '48), historian and President of Yale University and later the University of Chicago
• Walter Gilbert ('49?), Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
• Charlie Gibson, host of ABC's Good Morning America
• James K Glassman ('65), editorialist, syndicated columnist, and author
• Bill Nye the Science Guy, television personality and scientist
• Margaret Edson '79, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Wit
• Anne Applebaum '82, journalist and author
• Ana Gasteyer '85, actress

The following notable people attended Sidwell but did not graduate:

• Charles Lindbergh
• Nancy Reagan, First Lady (only went to elementary school at Sidwell)
• George A. Akerlof, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

In addition, the following children of famous people have attended Sidwell:

• Theodore Roosevelt's son
• Allan Hoover ? '25?, son of Herbert Hoover
• Valerie Rumsfeld , Donald Rumsfeld's daughter
• H.R. Haldeman's son?
• Tricia and Julie Nixon ('66?), daughters of Richard Nixon
• Dawn Rather , Dan Rather's daughter
• Chelsea Clinton '97, daughter of Bill Clinton
• Al Gore III '01, son of Al Gore

External links

Sidwell website