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Highlights
• The Fox Chapel Area School District was named by Pittsburgh Magazine ® as the top-
ranking school district in the suburbs in its “Ranking Pittsburgh’s Suburbs: Which Has
the Best Schools?” The rankings were based on fi ve criteria from the 2017-2018 school
year: average SAT math and reading scores, the number of Advanced Placement courses
offered, the presence or absence of full-day kindergarten, and the school real estate
tax millage.
• The district has climbed in the annual Pittsburgh Business Times rankings published in the
spring of 2018. The district, as a whole, was ranked number four in 2018 among Western
Pennsylvania school districts, up from number 17 in 2017. In the state honor roll rank, the
district also moved up from number 13 to number eight. The third graders, districtwide,
went from being number three in 2017 to being number one in 2018 in Western
Pennsylvania. Additionally, among Western Pennsylvania school districts, the 11 th graders
held steady at number three, the eighth graders went from number seven to number fi ve,
the seventh graders went from number six to number four, the sixth graders held steady
at number 10, the fi fth graders went from number fi ve to number three, and the fourth
graders went from number fi ve to number four. In the two-year gain rank category among
Western Pennsylvania school districts, Fox Chapel Area went from number six in 2017 to
number three in 2018. The rankings are based on the last three years of results from the
Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) and Keystone Exams.
• For the ninth year, Fox Chapel Area High School received a Silver Medal rank from
U.S.News & World Report.
• Alison Francis, facilitator of the district’s Creativity and Literacy Program, was named a
grand-prize winner in The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation Teacher Innovator Awards and
received a week-long “Innovation Immersion Experience” at the Henry Ford Museum in
Michigan. Mrs. Francis was one of 10 grand-prize winners from across the nation, and
the only winner from Pennsylvania, in the contest that recognizes America’s most
innovative teachers.
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