Cambridge Friends School will close its doors permanently after the 2026-27 school year, a result of continued enrollment challenges, according to an email from the school’s Board of Trustees sent to the school’s community on May 19.
The private Quaker school has taught elementary and middle school students in North Cambridge for 65 years. The school’s student body is 52% students of color and 40% of families receive financial aid, according to the website.
“After much careful discernment regarding our ongoing enrollment challenges, the Board has reached the difficult conclusion that Cambridge Friends School, in its current form, will close in June of 2027, at the end of next school year,” Beno Chapman and Jan Nisenbaum, co-clerks of the CFS Board of Trustees, wrote in the email…