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How Friends Seminary compares for families

What families should know about Friends Seminary.

  • LocallyNY sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Grace Church School, St George Academy, St George Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

Stony Brook University

49%
admit rate
$10,931
in-state tuition/yr · $32,741 out-of-state
1320–1490
SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $18,784/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Pay for college in New York

New York's public scholarships

New York's Excelsior Scholarship makes SUNY and CUNY tuition-free for middle-income families — there's no GPA or test gate, but you commit to staying in New York after you graduate.

Promise Excelsior Scholarship
Free SUNY/CUNY tuition (last-dollar, up to $5,500/yr)
Income: Household AGI ≤ $125,000

Tuition-free SUNY/CUNY for NY families under $125k AGI — no GPA or test gate, but you must stay on track and live in New York after graduating. (Stay on-track (30 credits/yr); live & work in NY afterward for the years you received it.)

Official program details ↗

Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

Friends Seminary publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 103 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

Years, as the document states them
The Classes of 2021–2025

College  ·  Students

Wesleyan University 18
Cornell University 13
University of Pennsylvania 13
Emory University 12
Brown University 11
Tufts University 11
Colgate University 10
Northeastern University 9
Rice University 9
University of Michigan 9
Boston University 8
Haverford College 7
New York University 7
Northwestern University 7
Pitzer College 7
University of Southern California 7
Yale University 7
Georgetown University 6
Tulane University 6
Washington University in St. Louis 6
Carnegie Melon University 5
Duke University 5
George Washington University 5
Syracuse University 5
Vassar College 5
Wellesley College 5
Amherst College 4
Barnard College 4
Bowdoin College 4
Hamilton College 4
and 73 more
University of St. Andrews 4
State University of New York 2
IE University, Madrid 1
Macalester University 1
McGill University 1
University of California 1
University of Melbourne 1
University of Toronto 1

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Friends Seminary — Friends Seminary School Profile (pp. 5-6, matriculation appendix) ↗. Found at: p.5-6, 'The Classes of 2021–2025 matriculated at the following institutions' — two-column name/count layout, verified by matching each name's y-coordinate to it.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 770 in 2018 to 791 in 2022 — over 4 years.
+2.7%
Why only 3 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see Friends Seminary's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.friendsseminary.org/admission/school-profile ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +0.7%/year, projecting from 2022's 791 students:

2023
796
2025
807
2027
818

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At tuition per student, the 27 students projected to be gained by 2027 represent ≈ $432,000/year in tuition upside.

Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Grace Church School
New York
Private 0.3 750 +1.4%
St George Academy
New York
Private 0.5 80
St George Academy
New York
Private 0.5 78
Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem
New York
Private 1.4 260 +58.5%
Bnos Yaakov Educational Center
Brooklyn
Private 2.7 700 +0.0%
Manhattan High School For Girls
New York
Private 2.7 218 +6.9%
Abraham Joshua Heschel School
New York
Private 2.7 910 +4.4%
Mosdos Chasidei Square
Brooklyn
Private 2.7 297 +10.0%

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