How Quaker Education Builds Real Community for Teens
Learn how Quaker education and Quaker values help teens overcome loneliness, strengthen belonging, and build meaningful, lasting relationships with confidence.
Why Teens Need Strong Communication Skills
Discover how Olney Friends School helps build communication skills for students through community living, active listening, empathy, and collaboration.
Quaker Values and Social Emotional Learning at Olney Friends School
Discover how Olney’s Quaker-based social emotional learning curriculum addresses teen mental health challenges through silence, community, and practice.
Inside a Progressive School That Puts Community First
Discover how Olney Friends School defines progressive education through a spirit-first approach that transforms students into values-driven leaders.
A Private Boarding & Day School Focused on Character
Explore Olney Friends School, a private boarding & day school in Ohio, where Quaker values, structure, and community develop character for college and life.
What is Experiential Learning?
Discover how an Olney education fosters experiential learning through hands-on, interdisciplinary education to develop confident thinkers with meaningful lives.
Quaker Education Provides the Right Environment
Discover how our Quaker education cultivates independent thinking, leadership, and integrity, preparing students for what comes next.
Peace, Presence, and the Outdoors
At Olney Friends School, a Quaker boarding and day school in Barnesville, Ohio, students learn something different. Presence. Deep listening. Caring for living things and each other across our 350-acre USDA-certified organic campus. Outdoor learning isn’t a program here. It’s daily life.
How Agricultural Education Becomes Truly Transdisciplinary
It’s pretty rare for a high school to have a farm. Uniquely situated upon 350 acres of USDA certified organic farmland, our school is a working farm that also serves as our largest classroom!
Is Your Teen Ready? 10 Signs They’ll Thrive at Boarding School
Wondering if your teen is ready for boarding school? Our guide reveals 10 signs of readiness and how Olney Friends School’s unique Quaker values-based education helps students flourish.