San Francisco Friends School, an independent K-8 Quaker school, was founded in 2002 by educators, civic leaders, business people, parents and graduates of Friends schools who felt the need for a Quaker school in San Francisco. In its first year, the school opened its doors to forty kindergartners and has grown ten-fold since. In 2008, the school moved into its permanent home in the beautifully refurbished Levi Strauss building located in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco.