The Perkiomen School

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The Perkiomen School is a traditional and structured co-educational college preparatory boarding and day school. Founded by a descendant of a Schwenkfelder immigrant in 1875, the school has a philosophy focused on creating an effective environment for individual growth and for the development of personal ethics. Perkiomen is a world community that admits students in grades five through twelve and offers a year for postgraduate students. The school embraces diversity, and actively pursues students and faculty from many neighborhoods of the country and the world. The school strives to develop individuals who appreciate learning and who work to acquire the skills necessary to learn. Perkiomen works to create an awareness in its students that education is a lifelong pursuit, help the students focus on ideals which are purposeful, reasonable, consistent with traditional values, and spiritually balanced, to nurture common sense, a sense of justice, a sense of honor, a sense of responsibility, and a sense of humor