Brashear High School
Address
590 Crane Avenue

Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
15216

United States
Coordinates40°25′08″N 80°01′05″W / 40.418856°N 80.018126°W / 40.418856; -80.018126
Information
TypePublic
Established1976
School districtPittsburgh Public Schools
PrincipalKimberly Safran
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,479[1] (February 2013)
Color(s)    Black and Vegas Gold
MascotBulls
WebsiteSchool website

Brashear High School is a large, urban, magnet, public school in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Brashear is one of four high schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. In the 2010–2011 school year, the school had 1,214 pupils with 615 males and 566 females. It employed 87 teachers. Since then, the school has acquired students from the transition with Langley High School. It is currently the largest high school in the district, with approximately 1,480 students and 105 teachers.[2]

Feeder District

The City of Pittsburgh neighborhoods which are served by Brashear High School are as follows: Banksville, Beechview, Brookline, Chartiers City, Crafton Heights, Duquesne Heights, East Carnegie, Elliot, Esplen, Fairywood, Mount Washington, Oakwood, Ridgemont, Sheraden, South Shore, Southside Flats, West End, Westwood, and Windgap.[3]

Computer Science Magnet

Brashear High School offers the Computer Science magnet for the City of Pittsburgh. Students take four years of programming courses.

History

Established in 1976, it is named in the honor of John A. Brashear, an astronomer and inventor. It was created to help with segregation issues in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.[4] The Pittsburgh Board of Education closed Fifth Avenue High School, Gladstone High School in Hazelwood and South Hills High School and merged the students in the building with 5000 or more students attending. The school opened with protesters from Brookline and Beechview communities, as well as the Hill and Hazelwood, the school had mass media coverage, and School Security and local Police were on hand the first week of school in 1976. The school colors are black and gold, and the original school mascot were Bullets, depicted by two large bullets with mean faces and fists clenched. They were replaced in the mid-1990s with a new mascot the Bull in response to parental complaints that the Bullets mascot could incite violence in students.[5]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "School information". PPS Web Site. Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2007-05-12.
  2. ↑ National Center for Education Statistics (2011). "Common Care Data Brashear High School Information".
  3. ↑ EJ. "Discover PPS". Pittsburgh Public Schools. Archived from the original on 9 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  4. ↑ Pittsburgh Brashear High School
  5. ↑ Pittsburgh Brashear High School
  6. ↑ "Sam Clancy". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Leander Jordan". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  8. ↑ Johnson, Marsha E. (October 20, 1986). "'Cosby Show' audiences warm up to Pittsburgh comedian". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2015-10-09. ("After graduating from Brashear High School in 1979, he attended the University of Pittsburgh . . . ")
  9. ↑ "Solomon Page". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Rasheed Marshall". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  11. ↑ "John Wetzel". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
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