Brashear High School

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Location
Brashear High School
590 Crane Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15216 Coordinates: 40.418856° N 80.018126° W USA
Information
School district	Pittsburgh Public Schools
Principal	Dr. Ruthane Reginella
Enrollment	1,108 as of 1-May-2007^[1]
Type	Public
Grades	9–12
Mascot	Bull
Color(s)	Black and Gold
Established	1976
Representative	Daniel M. Romaniello, Sr.

Brashear High School is a public school in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Brashear is one of ten high schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.

Established in 1976, it is named in the honor of John Brashear, a pioneering Pittsburgh astronomer. 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, Gladstone High School in Hazelwood and South Hills High School and merged the students in the then-state-of-the-art building with 5000 or more students attending. The school open with protesters from Brookline and Beechview communities, as well as the Hill and Hazelwood, the school had mass media coverage, and School Security and local Police were on hand the first week of school in 1976, this was a new direction for the Board of Education.^{[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]}

[edit] Computer Science Magnet

Brashear High School offers the Computer Science magnet for the City of Pittsburgh. Students have the opportunity to take four years of computer programming courses. Notable graduates of the Computer Science magnet include Renee Bryce (c/o 1996), a professor of Computer Science at the University of Nevada. Bryce's research encompasses applications of combinatorial designs to software testing.