Charter School was founded by Penn in 1689, is the oldest Quaker school in the nation, under the care of the Board of Overseers. Friends Schools League The Friends' Schools League (FSL) is an athletic league made up of student athletes from several private high schools in the Philadelphia area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As the league's name suggests, it consists primarily of Quaker schools, though in recent years several other schools have become part of the league as well. Member schools Member schools include: Abington Friends School Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools Friends Central School Friends Select School George School Germantown Friends School Moorestown Friends School The Shipley School Westtown School Miscellaneous weekend education The Japanese Language School of Philadelphia (JLSP, フィラデルフィア日本語補習授業校 Firaderufia Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a supplementary Japanese school, holds its classes, intended for Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans, at the Friends Central School (FCS) in nearby Wynnewood. Higher education Philadelphia is one of the largest college towns in the U.S., with over 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city limits and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area. References