Germantown Friends School

Philadelphia · PA · Religious-affiliated · K-12 combined

Private

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15 National Merit Semifinalists

At a glance

Programs & features

15 National Merit Semifinalists (2025)

Academic signals

SAT 25-75: 1260–1500
ACT 25-75: 29–34

Composed from the school's own published profile (2025), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Germantown Friends School compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

▸ Nationally15 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers) · Top 5% of the 218 curated private schools in our database on NMSF concentration.
▸ LocallyPA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Vocatio Career Prep High School, Sophia Academy, New Medina Learning Institute and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Your state's public flagship

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

54%

admit rate

$20,644

in-state tuition/yr · $41,790 out-of-state

1220–1400

SAT 25–75 · ACT 27–32

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 $32,875/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

See the full Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus profile → Estimate your odds with your scores →

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

Their published matriculation list

Where their graduates enrolled

Germantown Friends School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 109 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

Years, as the document states them
2023-25

College · Students

University of Pennsylvania 36

University of Pittsburgh 8

Cornell University 7

George Washington University 7

Vassar College 7

Northwestern University 6

Tufts University 6

Drexel University 5

Hamilton College 5

Haverford College 5

Morehouse College 5

New York University 5

Princeton University 5

University of Virginia 5

Washington University in St. Louis 5

Bowdoin College 4

Case Western Reserve University 4

Howard University 4

Middlebury College 4

Northeastern University 4

Oberlin College 4

University of California, Los Angeles 4

University of Chicago 4

Yale University 4

Amherst College 3

Barnard College 3

Boston University 3

Brown University 3

Carnegie Mellon University 3

Franklin & Marshall College 3

and 79 more

Harvard University 3

Pennsylvania State University -University Park 3

Rochester Institute of Technology 3

Swarthmore College 3

Syracuse University 3

Tulane University 3

University of Miami 3

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3

University of Toronto 3

Villanova University 3

Wesleyan University 3

American University 2

Boston College 2

Bryn Mawr College 2

College of William & Mary 2

Dickinson College 2

Duke University 2

Emory University 2

Georgetown University 2

Lehigh University 2

Macalester College 2

Rice University 2

Smith College 2

The New School 2

Union College - New York 2

University of Colorado Boulder 2

University of Delaware 2

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2

University of Vermont 2

University of Wisconsin—Madison 2

Ursinus College 2

Williams College 2

Arizona State University —

Bard College —

Bates College —

Bennington College —

Berklee College of Music —

Binghamton University —

Brandeis University —

California Institute of Technology —

Colby College —

College of the Holy Cross —

Colorado College —

Connecticut College —

Dartmouth College —

Eckerd College —

Georgia Institute of Technology —

Gettysburg College —

Grinnell College —

Johns Hopkins University —

Massachusetts Institute of Technology —

McGill University —

Michigan State University —

Mount Holyoke College —

Occidental College —

Pennsylvania State University -Abington —

Pennsylvania State University -Behrend —

Pennsylvania State University -Harrisburg —

Pomona College —

Purdue University —

Saint Joseph’s University —

Sarah Lawrence College —

Skidmore College —

Spelman College —

St. Lawrence University —

Temple University —

The University of Texas at Austin —

Trinity College —

University of California, Davis —

University of California, Santa Barbara —

University of Kentucky —

University of Maryland —

University of North Carolina at Greensboro —

University of Oregon —

University of Redlands —

University of Rochester —

University of The Arts —

Vanderbilt University —

Worcester Polytechnic Institute —

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Germantown Friends School — Germantown Friends School Profile 2025-26 ↗. Found at: p.3, 'College Matriculation 2023-25'.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 976 in 2020 to 1,025 in 2022 — over 2 years.

+5.0%

Why only 2 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 Germantown Friends School's own published school profile (as of 2025-26): resources.finalsite.net/images/v1761252758/german… ↗

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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.

School	Type	Miles	HS enrollment	Trend
Vocatio Career Prep High School Philadelphia	Private	2.1	22	—
Sophia Academy Philadelphia	Private	2.3	9	—
New Medina Learning Institute Philadelphia	Private	2.5	49	—
Faith Tabernacle School Philadelphia	Private	2.6	103	-22.6%
Mesivta Yesodei Yisroel Elkins Park	Private	3.2	25	—
International Christian High School Philadelphia	Private	3.6	145	+39.4%
I S Kosloff Torah Academy High School For Girls Bala Cynwyd	Private	3.9	113	+22.8%
The Mesivta High School Of Greater Phila Bala Cynwyd	Private	4.2	53	—

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