Friends’ School Preparatory Department is a long-established and integral part of Friends’ School Lisburn, a co-educational Voluntary Grammar School founded by the Religious Society of Friends in 1774. The Preparatory Department currently has an enrolment of 164 pupils, with a further 20 in Pre-Prep. The Quaker ethos of care for the individual and development of inherent potential still underpins the general philosophy of the school and through tolerance and understanding helps to cater for the different traditions within the local community.