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Taylor Allderdice High School
Address
2409 Shady Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15217 United States
Coordinates	40°25′46″N 79°55′10″W / 40.429514°N 79.919379°W / 40.429514; -79.919379
Information
Type	Public high school
Motto	Know Something, Do Something, Be Something
Established	1927 (1927)
School district	Pittsburgh Public Schools
NCES School ID	421917000409
Principal	James McCoy
Teaching staff	104.54 (FTE) (2022–23)
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,362 (2022–23)
Student to teacher ratio	13.03 (2022–23)
Color(s)	Green and white
Nickname	Dragons/Dice
Nobel laureates	Joshua Angrist Frances Arnold
Website	discoverpps.org/allderdice
Allderdice, Pittsburgh, High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pittsburgh Landmark – PHLF
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1927
Architect	Robert Maurice Trimble
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Pittsburgh Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.	86002641
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 30, 1986
Designated PHLF	2002

Taylor Allderdice High School is a public high school in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school was established in 1927 and is part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools district. It was named for industrialist and Squirrel Hill resident Taylor Allderdice, who was a member of the city's first school board and president of National Tube Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel.

Awards and recognition

Allderdice was designated a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education in 1994, 1995, and 1996.

Notable alumni

In popular culture

In 2012, rapper Wiz Khalifa released Taylor Allderdice, a mixtape named for his alma mater.

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