Alumni

“We owe a lifelong debt of gratitude to FSP and the people whose road we shared for those years. We are who we are because you were who you were.

Where do our graduates go?

Our graduates enter high school with a strong sense of self, a foundation that allows them to flourish in a variety of settings. They are confident, creative thinkers who possess a desire to learn and are very well-prepared academically. Friends School of Portland’s first eighth grade class graduated in June 2009.

We now have a total of 133 alumni who have headed off to a variety of public (75%) and private (25%) high schools:

·        Baxter Academy for Technology and Science

·        Brunswick High School

·        Cape Elizabeth High School

·        Casco Bay High School

·        Catherine McAuley High School

·        Cheverus High School

·        Deering High School

·        Falmouth High School

·        Freeport High School

·        Greely High School

·        Gould Academy

·        Kents Hill School

·        Maine Coast Waldorf School (Freeport)

·        Maine Region Ten Technical High School (Brunswick)

·        The Maine School of Science & Mathematics (Limestone)

·        North Yarmouth Academy

·        Portland High School

·        Proctor Academy

·        The Putney School (Vermont)

·        Sidcot School (North Somerset, UK)

·        South Portland High School

·        Waynflete School

·        Westover School (Connecticut)

·        Windham High School

·        Yarmouth High School

 

Our graduates have also attended a variety of colleges:

·        Allegheny College

·        Brown University

·        Clark University

·        College of the Atlantic

·        Earlham College

·        Eckerd College

·        Franklin & Marshall College

·        Georgetown University

·        Goucher College

·        Hampshire College

·        Johns Hopkins University

·        Knox College

·        McGill University

·        Muhlenberg College

·        The New School

·        Northeastern University

·        Saint Lawrence University

·        Stevens Institute of Technology

·        Smith College

·        Stanford University

·        University of New England

·        University of Rhode Island

·        University of Southern Maine

·        University of Vermont

·        Vassar College

·        Virginia Tech

·        Wellesley College

·        Wentworth Institute of Technology

·        Yale University

One memory that really stands out is my graduation. I felt so much love that day. We were in Carter Hall- the big auditorium on the island with a stage. It was really one of my first specially-called meeting for worship events. I had attended Portland Friends Meeting and meeting at school. I also remember attending Barbie Potter’s funeral. But graduation was one of my first Quaker events. There hadn’t been a Friends School graduation in Maine that I had been to before. So it was really different and full of love. We had a tree planted for our class that year. We were the first to start that tradition!

-Quinn Lavigne ‘09