Shady Side Academy

Shady Side Academy is an independent school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the most prestigious school in the city. It was initially founded as a boy's boarding school in 1883, though the Senior School was only established at its current suburban campus in the Fox Chapel neighborhood of Pittsburgh in 1921. A later merger with another local private school resulted in a new campus: a Junior School, located in Pittsburgh's Point Breeze and serving kindergarten through sixth grade students. In the 1950's, the Academy purchased an estate a mile from the Senior School campus, creating a middle school for grades six through eight. The total enrollment across all grades fluctuates but is generally slightly under 1000 students. In the 1970's, the Senior School became co-educational, and the Junior and Middle Schools followed suit in the nineties.

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Independent school - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Boarding school - 1883 - Fox Chapel - 1921 - Point Breeze - Kindergarten - Sixth grade - Co-educational

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Shady Side's athletic team name is the Indians, though this nickname has been criticized as offensive. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05182/531459.stm The school joined the local high school athletic association, the WPIAL, in 1993. Since this time it has won state championships in boys' basketball and boys' swimming, while coming under fire from some public schools in the WPIAL for the percieved unfairness of its ability to recruit students from across the region.

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1993 - Public schools

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For the past two years, Shady Side Academy has sent teams to the National Academic Quiz Tournaments national tournament.

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In both 2003 and 2005, it was the season champion on Pittsburgh-based game show Hometown High-Q.

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Game show - Hometown High-Q

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In 2003 Shady Side's middle school Science Olympiad team finished second in Pennsylvania and twentieth in the nation. In 2004, Shady Side won the state and took third in the nation, on the twentieth anniversary of the Science Olympiad program. In 2005, it again won the state and took ninth in the nation.

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Science Olympiad - Pennsylvania

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