North Allegheny Intermediate High School

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Location
North Allegheny Intermediate High School
350 Cumberland Road Pittsburgh, PA 15237 Coordinates: 40.570728° N 80.031514° W USA
Information
School district	North Allegheny School District
Head of school	Dr. Patricia Green
Principal	Mr. Brendan Hyland
Staff	226
Students	1,400
Faculty	17
Type	Public
Grades	9–10
Athletics	WPIAL (AAAA),
Motto	"Great Expectations...The Best Is Yet To Come"
Mascot	Tiger
Color(s)	Black and Gold
Established	1960 (building-as senior high), 1974 (as NAI)
Information	412-369-5530
Homepage	Home Page

North Allegheny Intermediate High School (NAI, NAIHS) is a suburban high school in the North Allegheny School District located in McCandless, Pennsylvania, a community north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is one of two high schools in the district and serves grades 9 and 10. The current principal is Mr. Brendan Hyland, who was hired before the start of the 2007-08 School Year. The school has six letter- and color-coded sloping hallways, each with a mural produced by the art department, and a newer front wing built during a renovation in 1998. The building originally housed North Allgheny Senior High School (NASH) but assumed its current role in 1974 when the senior high school was moved to its current Wexford campus. Before 1974, the intermediate high school was located in what is now Carson Middle School, one of the middle schools in North Allegheny.

1 Cultures
2 Clubs & Activities
- 2.1 Student Council Advisor & USA Today Award
3 Athletics
4 History
- 4.1 Current/Former Administrators
5 Notable Alumni
6 References

[edit] Cultures

As of 2005, the school is 93.3% Caucasian, 4.5% Asian/Pacific Islander, 1.3% African American, 0.7% Hispanic, and 0.2% American Indian.^[1]

[edit] Clubs & Activities

NAI has a wide array of extracurricular activities available to students, including Key Club and Student Council.^[2]

[edit] Student Council Advisor & USA Today Award

English teacher and head Student Council Advisor, Mrs. Kathy Coll, was honored as a member of the "2006 All-USA Teacher Team" by USA Today for the 2006-2007 School Year for her dedication to both passions for over 30 years, the academic success she has had, and helping student councils all across the nation. Coll has been at the school since 1973 and is also the student activities director.^[3]

[edit] Athletics

Students can usually participate in athletics at the Freshman and Junior Varsity levels in a wide variety of sports under WPIAL rules. North Allegheny has been a consistently high performer in the WPIAL and state championships. The athletic program began in 1969 and has won a number of state championships.

[edit] History

Built in 1959, the building initially served as the high school for grades 9 though 12. Grades 9 and 10 were then moved to Carson Intermediate High School (CIHS), named for the senior high school's principal John Carson. In 1974, the senior high school, serving grades 11 and 12, moved to its current location in Wexford, PA and the intermediate high school moved from what became Carson Middle School.

[edit] Current/Former Administrators

Lyle Fox was the first principal of CIHS until 1982 when he became a district administrator. James R. Wall was the first assistant until 1982 when he became the principal upon Fox's departure. In 1988, Wall died unexpectedly at the age of 58. Although a mural drawn at the NAI in memoriam of Mr. Wall is no longer there, he is remembered with a plaque and an award in his honor called the "James R. Wall Humanitarian Award/Scholarship" awarded to the student at NAI determined as the most giving and caring student for that given year, resembling Wall and his humanitarian efforts.

Wall's assistant principal then became principal until the mid-90's when former spanish teacher Mr. Keith (Kip) I. Patterson. In 1999, Dr. Jo Welter, currently an administrator for the school board at the Hampton School District was principal until 2007. In 2007, Mr. Brendan Hyland was hired from the Mt. Lebanon School District and is the current principal of NAI. Current assistants include Mr. Michael Medlin, hired in 1992 by NA, he has been the assistant principal at NAI, and the other is Mr. Jason Harding, a former special education teacher at Peebles Elementary School in NA, whom was hired before the start of the 2006-2007 school year to replace Dr. Kathleen Roppa, former assistant principal.