Taylor Allderdice High School, also referred to by the Pittsburgh Public Schools as “Pittsburgh Allderdice” or informally by students as "Dice", is a public high school located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s East End. Allderdice is the "largest of the Pittsburgh Public Schools' ten urban high schools", as measured by student population. It is also one of the better-performing schools in the district; It was awarded a Silver Med...
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Taylor Allderdice High School, also referred to by the Pittsburgh Public Schools as “Pittsburgh Allderdice” or informally by students as "Dice", is a public high school located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s East End. Allderdice is the "largest of the Pittsburgh Public Schools' ten urban high schools", as measured by student population. It is also one of the better-performing schools in the district; It was awarded a Silver Medal by the U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools 2009 Search.
The school was opened in 1927. It was named for the noted industrialist and Squirrel Hill resident Taylor Allderdice, who was at the time a member of the city's school board and president of the National Tube Company, a then subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Corporation.
Its feeder district includes all or parts of South Oakland, East Hills, Homewood, Hazelwood, Greenfield, Hays, New Homestead, Lincoln Place, Point Breeze, Regent Square, Park Place, Squirrel Hill, and Swisshelm Park....
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