Whois & Analysis for sidwell.edu

Sidwell Friends School is a highly selective Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes.

Founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell, its motto is, alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light.

All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly, and middle school students begin every day with five minutes of silence.

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements generally known as the Religious Society of Friends.

Members of the various Quaker movements are all generally united in a belief in the ability of each human being to experientially access "that of God in every person," and therefore they profess the priesthood of all believers, a doctrine derived from the First Epistle of Peter.

They include those with evangelical, holiness, liberal, and traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity.

To differing extents, the different movements that make up the Religious Society of Friends/Friends Church avoid creeds and hierarchical structures.

In 2007, there were about 359,000 adult Quakers.

In 2012, there were 377,055 adult Quakers.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

Whereas single-sex education was more common up to the 19th century, mixed-sex has since become standard in many cultures, particularly in Western countries.

Single-sex education, however, remains prevalent in many Muslim countries.

The relative merits of both systems have been the subject of debate.

A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children (or high school age adolescents) are given educational instruction during the day, after which the students return to their homes.

The term can also be used to emphasize the length of full-day programs as opposed to after-school programs, as in Jewish day school.