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Homecoming Spirit Week: A Celebration of Community, Spirit, and Connection

We are thrilled to share that this year we are building on our annual Brooklyn Friends School Spirit Week tradition with our first-ever BFS Homecoming series of events! Homecoming Spirit Week will take place from Monday, October 27 through Friday, October 31. This special week will bring our community together through spirit, celebration, and connection.  Homecoming Spirit Week Schedule of Events Monday, October 27 Blue Pride Pep […]

Honoring Indigenous Resilience, Resistance, and Presence

As a Quaker school grounded in the values of Equality, Integrity, and Community, Brooklyn Friends School acknowledges that we inhabit the unceded ancestral lands of the Lenape, known as Lenapehoking. This truth invites us to move beyond acknowledgment toward relationship, reciprocity, and action. Indigenous life is not past tense—it is present, enduring, and central to […]

Remembering Martin Norregaard, Beloved BFS Teacher and Friend to Generations

Martin Norregaard, one of the most beloved teachers in the history of Brooklyn Friends School, passed away this week. He was believed to be 95. Martin taught Middle School English and Social Studies at BFS from 1961–1991, and later served in various, less full-time capacities, including on the Board of Trustees.  Born and raised in […]

Apply for 2026–2027 at BFS — Join Us at Fall Open Houses

Brooklyn Friends School is delighted to announce that applications for the 2026–2027 school year will open on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. We look forward to welcoming prospective families to learn more about our vibrant Quaker, independent school community in the heart of Brooklyn. As part of the admissions process, families are invited to attend one […]

Recognizing Juneteenth as a Day of Liberation, Remembrance, Resolve

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” — Toni Morrison On Thursday, June 18, we honor Juneteenth—a day of liberation, remembrance, and continued resolve. At Brooklyn Friends School, we mark this day not only by reflecting on the delayed freedom of enslaved African Americans in 1865, but by recognizing […]

Brooklyn Friends School Celebrates Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony

On June 12, 2025, Brooklyn Friends School proudly celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2025 at New York City College of Technology. With joyful families, friends, colleagues, and alumni in attendance, the BFS Commencement Ceremony honored the academic achievements, personal growth, and community spirit that define a Brooklyn Friends School education. The event opened […]

BFS Honors the Class of 2025

More than a month before commencement—45 days in fact—the Brooklyn Friends School  Class of 2025 was celebrated by all of the Upper School students, colleagues, school leadership, and their families. To say it is well-deserved would be an understatement of considerable proportions. Dozens of extended family members gathered outside the entrance of the BFS Upper […]

DEB Community Update!

Rooted in Belonging, Growth and Community: An Update on All Things DEB at BFS! 💫 Our Early Childhood and Lower School Friends continue to thrive in exploring identity and in their changemaking!  💡Middle Schoolers are lifting up diverse voices and creating thoughtful, interdisciplinary justice work and advocacy as they grow into powerful versions of their […]

BFS Names New Head of Middle School

The following letter was sent to the BFS community by Head of School, Crissy Cáceres on March 3, 2025. Dear BFS Community, I hope that you are all doing well as we enter the first two weeks of March prior to a well-deserved Spring Break. I am writing to proudly share that after an extensive […]

Upper Schoolers Take Part in Youth Purpose Summit

It was an uncommon site, for an uncommon event, which could not have been more intentional and impactful. On Wednesday, the Upper School students and colleagues filled the Lower Gym at 375 Pearl Street for the inaugural Youth Purpose Summit—which is a partnership between BFS and the World Leadership School. The Youth Purpose Summit creates […]

First Comes BFS, Then Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage

On a September evening in 2017, Becky Soll ’99 and Chuck McVey Jr. ’99, stood together on the roof of Brooklyn Friends School, surrounded by family, friends, and the city skyline. It had been 30 years since they had first met in a BFS first-grade classroom, and now, they were getting married in the very […]

Day at the Museum: Students Share in Mr. C’s Joy

Caleb Miller is a man of many passions. He is a father, a husband, an educator, and an artist—and more. When several of those worlds collide, it makes for a moment of pure joy. That happened today when Mr. C—as he is known to his Brooklyn Friends School students—had the opportunity to speak to the […]