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Strategic Plan

Moorestown Friends School is a community dedicated to the pursuit of educational
excellence for a diverse student body within an academically rigorous
and balanced program emphasizing personal, ethical and spiritual growth.
Mission Statement approved by the School Committee on May 18, 2004.

The MFS Strategic Plan was approved by the School Committee in 2004. The centerpiece of this plan takes its lead from the school's Mission Statement in its focus on spiritual and ethical education.   Not only is this theme consistent with Quaker testimonies, it addresses urgent needs in our nation and world to restore honesty and civility in public discourse and private behavior.   Through the centerpiece of spiritual and ethical education, MFS is committed to developing students who have learned how to live an "examined life" characterized by a dedication to critical thought, openness to the Spirit, ethical development, and resilience.

This strategic planning process underscored the fact that a Moorestown Friends School education is a transformational experience.   Moorestown Friends is uniquely suited to develop students who are prepared to do well and to do good.   Students emerge from our school with a different set of values and perceptions than they would had they not attended MFS.   Helping students find and develop a values system that will guide them in their relationships, professional and personal, is hugely important.   Thanks to the school's Quaker heritage, this is a responsibility and a challenge embraced by our school community.   In fact, Moorestown Friends School is honored and proud to see its dedication to spiritual and ethical education defined, measured and realized every day in the lives of its students and graduates.

This theme of spiritual and ethical education also provides a framework for our goals in academic rigor.
Many independent schools offer academically strong programs, but very few provide these programs in a context which is based on the transformation of the student, what MFS alumnus Bob Smith, retired head of Sidwell Friends School, meant when he stated, "Friends schools are unabashedly in the business of making better people."   It's especially fitting that Bob Smith's alma mater lead the way in meeting this objective.

Below is the text of the MFS Strategic Plan divided by goals:

Introduction and Overarching Theme
Vision/Program Goals - Spiritual and Ethical Education and Academic Rigor
Schedule/Planning Time Goals
Faculty/Staff Compensation/Benefits Goals
Technology Goals
Physical Plant Goals
Fiscal Planning Goals
Governance Goal
Strategic Plan Progress Reports:
Winter 2005 Strategic Plan Update

Spring 2007 Strategic Plan Update

Spring 2007 Among Friends Article PDF