American Quakers, the Religious Society of Friends in particular, founded a school in Ramallah in 1896 under the name of the Friends Girls School, while work was commenced on establishing the Friends Boys School in al-Bireh in 1901, and continued until the school was inaugurated in 1918. The School began as a girls' training home in Ramallah, training girls in professions such as sewing. Today, RFS offers education based on the International Baccalaureate curriculum for the primary and high stages in two buildings, each of which is dedicated to one of the two stages.

The Ramallah Friends School Collection documents, through photographs and documents, the moment the Ramallah Friends School (RFS) was established when members of the Quakers traveled to Palestine. The collection also includes materials that shed light on different stages of the history of the social life of RFS schools, their work and activities, issues of RFS schools newsletter, the scripts of plays RFS schools prepared, and some of their incoming and outgoing correspondence.