Ramallah Friends Schools

The Ramallah Friends Schools are two Schools started by Quakers in the city of Ramallah, West Bank. The Friends Girls' School was founded in 1869; the Friends Boy's School was founded in 1901.
The schools are now co-educational and divided into Senior and Junior sections; a Meeting House was built in 1910.
==Curriculum==
The Friends Schools are considered one of the best schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,Education in the Palestinian territories, offering various educational curricula. These include Local governmental examinations: ‘Tawjihi’, American SAT examinations, and the IB curriculum. The school was able to provide the IB curriculum after being certified in 2001 by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO).
==School Site & Conflict==
The School buildings have previously been used as a hospital, a camp for refugees (in 1948) and a Turkish military camp.
The school was bombed twice by the Israeli Defense Force; once in 1967 and once in 2001 during “Al-Aqsa Intifadah”. It was also closed down numerous times during World War I and the First Intifadah.
==External links==
* Friends Schools page
* Friends United Meeting (U.S.Quakers group) page on the Schools
* International Baccalaureate Organization
==References==
Category:Quaker schools
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