The San Francisco Friends School is currently located at 117 Diamond Street, in a leased school building. The building is simple, clean, and light-filled and ideal for our needs, housing twelve classrooms (two classes each in grades K-5), and accommodating specialist's spaces for art, music, and library. PE classes, assemblies and Community Meeting for Worship are held in the gymnasium or the community room at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center. Children play in the field next door during recess, PE, and after-school.

The school's permanent home will be at 250 Valencia Street, in the historic Levi Strauss building. Architect Peter Pfau has designed an outstanding school, retaining the open, light feeling of the space, and honoring the school's mission by approaching the project with close attention to sustainability and simplicity, and with the explicit goal of building community within and beyond the walls of the school. When both phases of the construction are complete, the 80,000 square foot building will house over twenty classrooms, a gymnasium, science laboratories, nature and outdoor education facilities, ample performing and visual arts studios, a 'black box' theatre, a spacious library and Quaker Meeting Room. The designated spaces will be supplemented with commons areas, offices, a dining hall and galleries. In the front of the building, a 10,000 square foot playground and garden will provide ample space for recess, lunch and outdoor play. Students and teachers will move into our beautiful new building in the 2008-09 school year.

In the spring of 2006, San Francisco Friends School launched Light the Way, a three-year campaign to raise funds for the renovation of 250 Valencia Street and the long term future of our school. The campaign working goal is $8,000,000. Weeks after the campaign opened, the Sarah and William Hambrecht Foundation pledged a dollar for dollar matching gift of $8,000,000. San Francisco Friends School is managing the cost of the building project with the school's long-term fiscal health in mind. A tax exempt bond is being explored as a financing option to bridge the difference between fundraising and the phase one project cost. In keeping with our Quaker values, Light the Way is an inclusive community-wide fundraising campaign. We are asking all SFFS families and members of the broader philanthropic community to participate and consider gifts of extraordinary generosity to help Light the Way and found our permanent home.