Sandy Spring Friends School

Sandy Spring Friends School (SSFS) is an American private college preparatory Quaker school serving students from preschool (age three) through 12th grade (age eighteen). It is coeducational and progressive. Founded in 1961, its motto is "Let Your Lives Speak", an old Quaker adage which expresses the school's philosophy of "educating all aspects of a person so that their life—in all of its facets—can reveal the unique strengths within". SSFS sits on a 140-acre campus in the center of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. SSFS is under the care of the Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting and the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. After previously announcing plans for closure, the Board of Trustees released a statement in April 2025 saying that funding had been secured to keep the school open until at least the close of the 2027-2028 school year. Since that time, additional fundraising efforts as well as significant leadership changes have stabilized the school, and it is now committed to remaining open indefinitely.