School Structure
As Mary McDowell Friends School has grown, the structure has been refined, dividing the elementary school into three divisions (lower, elementary, and upper) and adding a middle school, to meet the needs of more students with learning disabilities. Through upper elementary school, students are grouped in multi-age classes, relying on a number of factors, including age, social and emotional development and class dynamics, to determine placement. The middle school is more traditionally organized by grade level, from sixth through eighth grade. Starting in the fall of 2010, our new upper school school division will follow the model of the middle school and be organized by grade level.