Know Something, Do Something, Be Something[1][2][3]
Established
1927 (1927)
School district
Pittsburgh Public Schools
NCES School ID
421917000409[4]
Principal
James McCoy[5]
Teaching staff
106.54 (FTE) (2021–22)[4]
Grades
9–12
Enrollment
1,415 (2021–22)[4]
Student to teacher ratio
13.28 (2021–22)[4]
Color(s)
Green and white [6]
Nickname
Dragons[6]
Nobel laureates
Joshua Angrist
Frances Arnold
Website
discoverpps.org/allderdice
Allderdice, Pittsburgh, High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pittsburgh Landmark – PHLF
Area
3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built
1927[6]
Architect
Robert Maurice Trimble[8][9]
Architectural style
Classical Revival
MPS
Pittsburgh Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.
86002641[7]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
September 30, 1986
Designated PHLF
2002
Taylor Allderdice High School is a public high school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school was established in 1927 and is part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools district. It 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.[10]
^"The History of Allderdice High School". February 14, 2019. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
^Chass, Murray (January 14, 2005). "For Martin, a Mixture of Oil with Talent". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 6, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
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^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"Taylor Allderdice High School Biology Class". Historic Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Library System. Archived from the original on February 16, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
^Baron, Jennifer Lynne (Fall 2006). "Up Front". Western Pennsylvania History: 10. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
^Lee, Carmen J. (March 16, 1998). "The name on a school stays, but memory of the person fades". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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