Brashear High School

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Brashear High School
School type	Public
Established	1976
District	Pittsburgh Public Schools
Grades	9–12
Contact Number	412-571-7300
Principal	Dr. Ruthane Reginella
Students	1,124 as of 1-Apr-2007^[1]
Colors	Black and Gold
Mascot	Bull
Representative	Daniel M. Romaniello, Sr.
Location	590 Crane Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15216 Coordinates: 40.418856° N 80.018126° W USA

Brashear High School is a public school in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Established in 1976, it is named in the honor of John Brashear, an American astronomer. Brashear is one of ten high schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. It was created to help with segregation issues in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.^{[citation needed]} The Pittsburgh Board of Education closed Fifth Avenue High School and South Hills High School and merged the students in the then-state-of-the-art building.^{[citation needed]} The school colors are black and gold, and the original school mascot were Bullets, depicted by two torpedo shaped bullets with a mean face and fists clenched.^{[citation needed]} They were replaced in the early 1990s with a new mascot the Bull in response to parental complaints that the Bullets could incite violence in students.^{[citation needed]}