ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (K-5)

Fairview Elementary School: 378

Hartwood Elementary School: 395

Kerr Elementary School: 414

O'Hara Elementary School: 699

SECONDARY SCHOOLS (6-12)

Dorseyville Middle School: 953

Fox Chapel Area High School: 1,317

*Total enrollment is 4,156. This information is from 2021-2022 third-day enrollment figures.

The total number of graduates in the Fox Chapel Area High School Class of 2021 was 318. Approximately 87% of the Class of 2021 went on to some form of postsecondary education.

Four-Year Colleges: 240 (76%)
Two-Year Colleges/Other: 35 (11%)

Here are the average scores on the SAT for the Fox Chapel Area High School Class of 2021.

• Evidence-based reading and writing: 611
• Math: 618

A total of 279 members (88%) of the FCAHS Class of 2021 took the SAT during their junior or senior year.

The national average for all 2021 graduates taking the test was 528 in evidence-based reading and writing and 523 in math.

NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF

Elementary: 165
Secondary: 186

MASTER'S OR DOCTORATE DEGREES OR EQUIVALENT

Elementary: 75%
Secondary: 81%

AVERAGE YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Elementary: 17 years
Secondary: 21 years

The district has received both national and state recognition.

• All six of our schools have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools, and two of our schools, Fox Chapel Area High School and Fairview Elementary School, received the designation twice.

• In 2016, the district was one of only 19 new school districts nationwide accepted into Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools.

• Fox Chapel Area School District consistently receives an “A+ Overall Niche Grade” from Niche and is ranked among the top 50 school districts in the nation.

• The district has been named among the “Best Communities for Music Education” from the National Association of Music Merchants for the past eight years.

• In 2017, the district was honored by the College Board with placement on the 7th Annual AP District Honor Roll, a distinction for districts that show significant gains in student access and success on Advanced Placement courses and tests.

• The high school was recognized for Programs of Distinction in Visual Arts in 2015 and received Exemplary Educational Program Credentials in music and school counseling from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools.

• Dorseyville Middle School was named Pennsylvania Don Eichhorn Schools: Schools to Watch school.

• Fox Chapel Area High School has been awarded Silver Medal rankings by U.S.News & World Report during the past decade and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top high schools by Newsweek.

• FCAHS was included in The Washington Post’s America’s Most Challenging High Schools in 2017.