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About MFS
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History In 1785, members of the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) erected a little brick schoolhouse at a point where Kings Highway passes over Route 73, in present day Maple Shade. The same year, they built a one-room stone schoolhouse on land west of the present Moorestown Friends Meeting House, on what is now part of the site of Moorestown Friends School. The kindergarten building -- now known as the White Building -- was constructed in 1927. A new high school was built in 1929 and enlarged in 1958 to create a new gym and additional classrooms. In 1965, the present Lower School was built. Stokes Hall, a three-story addition linking the Upper and Lower School buildings, was completed in 1987-88, and houses the Diller Memorial Library, science facilities, computer laboratories and administrative offices. A Dining Hall/Commons, where students eat lunch and where the school community gathers for special events, was built in 1997. The new Field House and renovated Art Center were opened in September 2002. The Woodward Henry Diller Memorial Library in Stokes Hall was completely renovated in the summer of 2003. The campus also includes seven all-purpose playing fields, two baseball diamonds and five tennis courts. Facilities include four gymnasiums, a fitness center, a 450-seat air-conditioned auditorium, a Music Computing Center, an art studio and wood shop. In December 2006, MFS purchased two properties close to the campus at 66 E. Main St. and 123 Chester Avenue (the former Acme supermarket). In 2008, the school purchased the former Greenleaf Retirement facility on Main Street, a property contiguous to the current MFS campus near the Field House and Tennis Courts. Five buildings are located on the four-acre property: the Main Building which looks out on Main Street, the South Annex, a two-floor building that the school is hoping to quickly convert to classroom space, and three other houses. The Quaker-run Greenleaf community served as a boarding home for elderly and retired Friends since 1896. One special connection that Moorestown Friends and the Greenleaf shared is that Moorestown Friends School 1901 graduate Alice Paul (1885-1977), famed leader of the women’s suffrage movement, who helped secure the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing for women the right to vote, spent her final years at the Greenleaf. Money magazine named Moorestown, N.J. the "Best Place To Live in the U.S." in an August 2005 article that included quotes from and photos of several Moorestown Friends School families and alumni.
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110 E. Main Street Moorestown, NJ 08057-2949 Phone: (856) 235-2900