Thomas Jefferson High School is an American public

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located in

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. It is a part of the

West Jefferson Hills School District West Jefferson Hills School District is a midsized, suburban, public school system for residents of Jefferson Hills, West Elizabeth, and Pleasant Hills. Each of these South Hills communities are suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. West Jefferso ...

which includes

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, Jefferson Hills, and Pleasant Hills. These communities have a combined population of 15,000.

History

, the school district is designing a new building for the school. It will be a red brick building modeled off of

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, with an initial estimated cost of $100 million.

Extracurricular activities

The high school offers a variety of clubs and activities. The Thomas Jefferson

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team won the

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Class AAA Championships in 1980 at

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and in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020 at

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. In 2004, 2007, 2008, 2019, and 2020 the team won the PIAA State Championship in Hershey. The school newspaper is called the ''Statesman''. The yearbook is titled the ''Monticello'' and the literary magazine is named the ''Spectrum'' and features fictional submissions written and submitted by actual students and teachers. Thomas Jefferson's band consists of almost 200 instrumentalists each year: saxophones, flutes, trombones, trumpets, piccolos, clarinets, drumline, tubas, majorettes, and colorguard. The band is led by James Mirabella of Steubenville, Ohio, originally from West Virginia. The band was featured as the WPXI Band of the week in 1998. The band was also featured at the half time show of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens AFC divisional playoff in 2011. The theater program is also highly lauded, winning Gene Kelly Awards in 2022.

Notable alumni

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* Tyler Reed, former professional football player,

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Notes

External links

Thomas Jefferson Band Patrons WebsiteWest Jefferson Hills School District WebsiteThomas Jefferson HS Football WebsiteThe Statesman Website
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