McKeesport Area High School is a public

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located in

McKeesport, Pennsylvania McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census. It ...

, United States. The school, which is located at 1960 Eden Park Boulevard, serves students from Dravosburg,

McKeesport McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela River, Monongahela and Youghiogheny River, Youghiogheny rivers and within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population ...

, South Versailles,

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, and

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. The school is a member of The Consortium for Public Education, which is a member of the Public Education Network.

History

The very first building to be designated solely as a high school in McKeesport was located on Shaw Ave. In 1916, McKeesport Technical High School, also known as "Tech High" opened on 1600 Cornell St. (back then, it was just a part of the Evans Family Homestead). In 1961, the high school was relocated to its current location. The new building was adjacent to the McKeesport Vocational School located on 3600 O'Neil Boulevard. The two buildings were used jointly for a variety of high school coursework. In 2000, the 1960 Eden Park Blvd. building (also known as "South Hall") housed all 9-12 grade non-vocational classes. In 2003, additions to the physical plant enabled the vocational programs to also relocate. "North Hall" was renamed Founders' Hall and housed 7-8 grade. When this new high school was completed in September 1961, the School Board named it McKeesport Senior High School. From 1967 until 1983, the building was known as McKeesport Area Senior High School whereupon the "senior" was dropped in 1984. From 1984 until now, it has been known as McKeesport Area High School. The high school became a Grade 9-12 building with the start of the 1979-1980 school year. In 2003-2004, new additions to the high school building provided room for the five remaining vocational/technical classes that were previously housed at North Hall. Culinary Arts, Cosmetology, Building Construction, Auto Body, and Auto Mechanics are now all a part of the comprehensive high school that offers its entire academic and vocational/technical curriculum under one roof. Highlights of the high school project included a modern Tiger Inn restaurant for the culinary arts program, new cosmetology labs, an expanded graphic occupations department, modern office areas for the vocational/technical program, and an expanded physical fitness area, along with, much needed, additional classroom space. Upgrades were also made to the Weigle-Schaeffer Tiger Stadium that features a new artificial grass field, and an updated all weather track that includes specialized areas to conduct field events.

McKeesport Area Technology Center Programs

* Allied Health Technology * Auto Body and Collision * Auto Mechanics * Biotechnology * Blueprint Reading * Building Construction * Business/Office Administration * Child Care * CISCO IT Essentials/C-Tech Networking * Computer Aided Design and Drafting * Computer Service Technology * Cosmetology * Culinary Arts * Engineering Technology * Graphics/Commercial Art * Web Page Design

Extracurriculars

The district offers a variety of clubs, activities and sports.

Athletics

McKeesport Area High School competes in the

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(PIAA). It also is a member of the

Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) is an interscholastic athletic association in Western Pennsylvania. It is District 7 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association. History The Western Pennsylvania Inte ...

(WPIAL). *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

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Color Guard In Military, military organizations, a colour guard (or color guard) is a detachment of soldiers assigned to the protection of Colours, standards and guidons, regimental colours and the national flag. This duty is so prestigious that the militar ...

* Cross Country *

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Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

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Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Athletic championships

*2005: **

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AAAA Football Champions ** PIAA AAAA Football Champions *1998: **

AAAA Girls Basketball Champions. *1995: **

AAAA Boys Basketball Champions. *1994: **

AAAA Football Champions. ** PIAA AAAA Football Champions. *1963: **

Baseball Champions. *1955: **

Baseball Champions. **

Basketball Champions. ** PIAA Basketball Champions. *1953: **

Baseball Champions. *1945: **

Baseball Champions. *1925: **

Basketball Champions. ** PIAA Basketball Champions

Organizations and activities

The school's numerous and varied organizations include: *

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Bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...

Club *

Chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

Club * Children's Play *

Choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

Culinary Arts Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. People working in this field – especially in establishments such as restaurants – are commonly called chefs or ...

Club * Cultural Diversity Club *

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Club *

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Club *

Equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...

team * Foreign Language Club *

Future Business Leaders of America The Future Business Leaders of America, or FBLA, is an American career and technical student organization headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Established in 1940, FBLA is a non-profit organization of high school ("FBLA"), Middle Level ("FBLA ...

* Future Nurses of America * Gay-Straight Alliance * Interact Club *

Marching band A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, ofte ...

Model United Nations Model United Nations, also known as Model UN or MUN, is an educational simulation in which students can learn about diplomacy, international relations, and the United Nations. At a MUN conference, students work as the representative of a count ...

Musical Theater Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ...

National Honor Society The National Honor Society (NHS) is a nationwide organization for high school students in the United States and outlying territories, which consists of many chapters in high schools. Selection is based on four criteria: scholarship (academic achi ...

Orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

* P.A.W.S.S. * P.E.P.P. *

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Football * PTSA * Red & Blue Newspaper * Senior Class * Skills U.S.A. * Speech Club *

Stage Crew A stagehand is a person who works backstage or behind the scenes in theatres, film, television, or location performance. Their work include setting up the scenery, lights, sound, props, rigging, and special effects for a production. General St ...

* Students Against Driving Drunk/Drug Awareness Committee S.A.D.D. *

Student Council A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...

* Theatre Arts * Vision Poetry Magazine *

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(Yough-A-Mon)

Notable alumni

Donald M. Carpenter Donald Marshall Carpenter (March 6, 1894 – April 4, 1940) was an early naval aviator in the United States Navy flying from the and . These were the first two aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy. He graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in the C ...

– aviator in the U.S. Navy *

Swin Cash Swintayla Marie "Swin" Cash Canal (born September 22, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played professionally for 15 seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She currently serves as vice preside ...

– Women's Professional Basketball Player (WNBA), 2 time (2000, 2002) NCAA Women's College Basketball Champion (UCONN), Olympic (Basketball, 2004) Gold medalist. * Tim Conroy – former MLB pitcher * Austin Davis – Former PA State House of Representatives Member and current Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor * Harry Fisher (aka Franklin J. Phillips) – United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient *

Brian Holton Brian John Holton (born November 29, 1959) is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues primarily in relief from 1985 to 1990. He was a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers 1988 World Series winners, notching a save i ...

– former MLB relief pitcher *

Khaleke Hudson Khaleke Hudson (born December 6, 1997) is an American football linebacker for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Michigan and was drafted by Washington in the fifth round of the 2020 N ...

– NFL player *

Rick Krivda Richard Michael Krivda (born January 19, 1970) is an American former baseball pitcher. Krivda pitched 12 years in professional baseball and won a gold medal in the 2000 Olympics. Krivda graduated from McKeesport High School in 1988. He then went ...

– former Professional Baseball player (MLB,1991–2003), Olympic (Baseball, 2000) Gold Medalist *

Freddie Lewis Frederick L. Lewis (born July 1, 1943) is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). He is the only player to start his career in the NBA ...

– former NBA/ABA Guard (ABA All-Star) * Mike Logan – former Pittsburgh Steelers safety * Ray Mathews – former NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver *

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– Artist and photographer * George Mrkonic – former NFL player *

Mitchell Paige Mitchell Paige(Mihajlo Pejić) (August 31, 1918 – November 15, 2003) was an American-Serbian retired United States Marine Corps colonel who received the nation's highest military decoration for valor in combat, the Medal of Honor, during W ...

(1918-2005) – Colonel, United States Marine Corps, awarded

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for actions as a Platoon Sergeant in the defense of Henderson Field on

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Island, 26 October 1942. McKeesport HS Class of 1936 *

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– musician *

Tom Qualters Thomas Francis Qualters (born April 1, 1935), nicknamed ''Money Bags'', is a former right-handed major league baseball pitcher, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He played with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox in the 1950s. At ...

– former MLB pitcher *

Helen Richey Helen Richey (November 21, 1909 – January 7, 1947) was a pioneering female aviator and the first woman to be hired as a pilot by a commercial airline in the United States. In 1933, she and her flying partner, Frances Harrell Marsalis, set a ...

– first woman pilot of a commercial airliner *

Brandon Short Brandon Darrell Short (born July 11, 1977) is a former American college and professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football for Penn State University, and was ...

– former NY Giants, Carolina Panthers linebacker *

Sam Sneed Sam Sneed (born Sam Anderson; February 29, 1968) is an American record producer, producer and rapper. He originally got his start working as a producer for K-Solo and the Hit Squad. Biography Early years In 1993 he was signed to Death Row Reco ...

– music producer *

Herbert Spiegel Herbert Spiegel (June 29, 1914 – December 15, 2009) was an American psychiatrist who popularized therapeutic hypnosis as a mainstream medical treatment for patients experiencing pain, anxiety, and addictions. He also is known for his treatment o ...

– psychiatrist, "father of hypnosis" *

Robert J. Stevens Robert J. Stevens (born 1951), is a retired Chairman#Public corporations, executive chairman of Lockheed Martin. He was the Chairman#Public corporations, chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lockheed Martin from 2004 until 20 ...

– chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin * Russell Stuvaints – former Pittsburgh Steelers safety.

References

External links

McKeesport Area High School Official Home Page

McKeesport Area School District Official Web Site

McKeesport Area Tiger AthleticsMcKeesport Area Senior High Class of 1976
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