Taylor Allderdice High School is a public high school located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The school opened in 1927 and was named for industrialist and Squirrel Hill resident Taylor Allderdice, who was a member of the city's first school board and president of National Tube Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corporation.
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Feeder district
Allderdice's feeder district includes all or parts of the Glen Hazel, Hays, Hazelwood, Homewood, Greenfield, Lincoln Place, New Homestead, Point Breeze, Regent Square, South Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, and Swisshelm Park neighborhoods. Students from other Pittsburgh neighborhoods and the borough of Mount Oliver may also attend Allderdice through the pre-engineering magnet program; the Chinese magnet program, as Allderdice is the only district school to offer Chinese; or under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Recognition
- 1994 - designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education
- 1995 - designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education
- 1996 - designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education
- 2005 - ranked number 1,061 on the list of top performing U.S. high schools by Newsweek
- 2007 - ranked number 1,183 on the list of top performing U.S. high schools by Newsweek
- 2009 - ranked number 40 in Western Pennsylvania on the list of highest scoring juniors on the PSSA for a three-year period
- 2009 - awarded Silver Medal by U.S. News & World Report in their "Best High Schools" issue
- 2010 - ranked number 1,538 on the list of top performing U.S. high schools by Newsweek
Enrollment
As of October 2016
The Foreword
The Foreword, Allderdice's student newspaper, began with its first published issue on April 1, 1927, as a three-column-wide subscription newspaper. It publishes an edition every five to six weeks during the school year. It is supported solely by advertising sales and is distributed at no cost to students, faculty, parents, and members the local community. The newspaper's namesake is a play on words of Forward Avenue, the street located on the building's south side.
Notable alumni
In popular culture
In 2012, rapper Wiz Khalifa released Taylor Allderdice, a mixtape named for his alma mater.
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