Woodland Hills Schools District encompasses many of the boroughs east of the City of Pittsburgh, covering 13.5 square miles. It serves a population of over 50,000 residents, which is nearly one-fifth the size of the City of Pittsburgh and is one of the largest school districts in Western Pennsylvania.
Its close proximity to Downtown Pittsburgh allows for countless educational, cultural, social and employment opportunities. Woodland Hills also is located minutes from some of the top colleges and universities in the country: Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Point Park University and Duquesne University.
Approximately 4,500 students are served by Woodland Hills, providing them with opportunities to develop educationally, athletically, artistically and socially.
Eight schools comprise the Woodland Hills School District: Woodland Hills High School, Woodland Hills Junior High School, and Elementary schools: Fairless, Dickson, Edgewood, Shaffer, Wilkins and just recently The Woodland Hills Academy.
Accomplishments
- Woodland Hills High School musicals have received the prestigious Gene Kelly Award 68 times (including six for Best Musical) and was nominated an amazingly 129 times.
- Woodland Hills is the reigning champion of the Pennsylvania Statewide Mock Trial competition — sponsored by the state bar association — two years running.
- Woodland Hills was one of only three Pittsburgh-area high schools to make Newsweek's "Top of the Class" ranking in 2003. It ranked 635 in the top 1,300 US high schools.
- Woodland Hills High School has supported multiple National Merit finalists and graduates who went on to attend highly regarded institutions such as Brown University, the Massachusetts Insititute of Technology, Georgetown University and Carnegie Mellon University, among others.
- The football team has been ranked nationally, and its stadium — the Wolverina — has been named as one of the top 10 places to watch a high school football game in the United States by both USA Today and ESPN.com.
- Woodland Hills High School has produced five NFL players since the early 1990s: Jason Taylor (Washington Redskins), Steve Breaston (Arizona Cardinals), Lousaka Polite (Miami Dolphins), Ryan Mundy (Pittsburgh Steelers) and Shawntae Spencer (San Francisco 49ers). Two Woodland Hills alumni competed -- against each other -- in Super Bowl XLIII!
- Many students each year are selected to attend various Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence, which include programs in agricultural sciences; the arts; global entrepreneurship; information, society and technology; international studies; sciences; and teaching.
- Middle schools are active in the Pennsylvania Parent Information and Resource Center, which enhances parent and community engagement.
- The district successfully implemented the Pre-K Counts program in 2007, which is designed to level the playing field for children who cannot afford pre-schooling to be better prepared when they enter school.
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