- Brashear High School
Infobox_School
name = Brashear High School
motto =
established = 1976
type = Public
affiliation =
district =Pittsburgh Public Schools
grades = 9–12
president =
principal = Mr. John Vater
head of school =
dean =
faculty =
staff =
students =
enrollment = 1,186 as of 28-September-2008cite web |url=http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/Brashear.asp |title=Brashear High School Factsheet |accessdate=2007-05-12 |work=PPS Web Site ]
athletics =
conference =
colors = Black and Gold
mascot = Bull
free_label = Representative
free_text = Daniel M. Romaniello, Sr.
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free_text2 =
location = 590 Crane Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15216 coord|40.418856|N|80.018126|W|type:edu|display=title
country = USA
contact number = 412-571-7300
website =Brashear High School is a
public school in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania ,USA . Brashear is one of ten high schools in thePittsburgh Public Schools .Established in
1976 , it is named in the honor ofJohn Brashear , a pioneering Pittsburghastronomer . It was created to help with segregation issues in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.Fact|date=February 2007 The Pittsburgh Board of Education closedFifth 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.Fact|date=February 2007 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.Fact|date=February 2007 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.Fact|date=February 2007Computer 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 Utah State University. Bryce's research encompasses applications of combinatorial designs to software testing.
References
External links
* [http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/Brashear.asp Brashear High School]
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