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Schenley High School, located in the North Oakland neighborhood at the edge of the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a historic building opened in 1916 that was a part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The Schenley High School building was closed in June 2008 in a 5–4 vote by the school district due to issues with asbestos.
- October 2, 1916
- Bigelow Blvd. and Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve
- Pittsburgh Public Schools
Schenley High School, located at Bigelow Boulevard and Centre Avenue, was designed by architect Ed Stotz. The school opened for students on October 2, 1916, and was the first school built in the United States that cost over $1 million to construct.
The Schenley Experiment is the story of Pittsburgh’s first public high school, a social incubator in a largely segregated city that was highly—even improbably—successful throughout its 156-year existence.
- Jake Oresick
16. Juni 2022 · A statewide quarantine for infantile paralysis delayed the opening by a month, but on October 2, 1916 70 teachers and the first class of 1,800 students entered their new home. Schenley High School was magnificent, and the city’s newspapers heralded it as the ‘last word in educational institutions’.
8. März 2017 · THE SCHENLEY EXPERIMENT by Jake Oresick, out April 15th from Penn State University Press, is the story of Pittsburgh’s first public high school. Schenley was a social incubator in a largely...
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4. Mai 2017 · The Schenley Experiment is more than the story of one school. It’s also a window into the educational history of Pittsburgh as it adapted to waves of industrialization, immigration, civil...
Pittsburgh Central High School (known as “Central”)—recast as Schenley High School in 1916—was at different times the subject of innovative investment and destructive neglect, providing a case study in both the best and worst urban public education practices.
