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Fox Chapel Area School District is a public school district centered in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. Located about tweleve miles from downtown Pittsburgh, the district encompasses six municipalities - Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, Indiana, O'Hara, and Sharpsburg.

[edit] National Recognition

The district has received both national and state recognition. The Pennsylvania and United States departments of education have recognized individual buildings and programs through the elementary and secondary school recognition programs. All six of our schools have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools — Fox Chapel Area High School (two times), Dorseyville Middle School, Fairview Elementary School, Hartwood Elementary School, Kerr Elementary School, and O’Hara Elementary School. Most recently, the Fox Chapel Area School District was named among the 2005 “Best 100 Communities for Music Education in America.” The school district was selected as a 2003 Gold Exemplary Program winner for Environment and Ecology by the Pennsylvania Department of Education in honor of the district’s elementary environmental education program. Additionally, Fox Chapel Area High School was named a New American High School by the U.S. Department of Education in 1999, was named one of the nation’s top public high schools for 2003 by Newsweek magazine, received the state and national Drug-Free Schools and Communities Prevention Recognition Award, and was one of 63 schools in the nation cited by Redbook magazine for “Overall Excellence.” Exceptional Parent Magazine recognized the high school with its Education Award for its “programs that illustrate quality education for all children” and the high school was also featured as one “of the area’s best schools” in Pittsburgh Magazine. Other commendations have recognized district programs and individuals, including the winner of a 2006 Disney Teacher Award, the winner of the Robert F. Wolf Award for excellence in teaching, the Pennsylvania Elementary Teacher of the Year, the Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, Outstanding Secondary Art Educator of the Year, the Environmental Education Teacher of the Year, the Pennsylvania Elementary Counselor of the Year, the Pennsylvania Outstanding Middle School Counselor of the Year, the Outstanding Superintendent Award, and finalists for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Award. 2007 National Merit Semifinalists Fourteen Fox Chapel Area High School seniors have been designated as National Merit Semifinalists in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). The Semifinalists from Fox Chapel Area High School are: Samuel Bakkila, Kevin Boyd, James Byrnes, Stephen Dickel, Maureen Hart, Thomas Hu, Andrew Krieger, Elise Liu, Bassem Mikhael, Ethan Minogue, Juliette Power, Robert Schwartz, Anastas Stoyanovsky, and Michael Tracht. Read more...