Fox Chapel Area High School (Established in 1961) is a public school located in O'Hara Township, Allegheny County

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

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, USA. It was recognized and honored with the title of "New American High School showcase site" in 1999 under the New American High Schools

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 initiative.

Mission statement

Accolades

In 2006 and 2007, Newsweek

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 listed Fox Chapel Area High School as one of the top public high schools in the United States.

Notable alumni

• Reb Beach
  Reb Beach
  Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake...
  
   - Guitarist
• Jeff Habay
  Jeff Habay
  Jeffrey Earl Habay is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, who was elected to represent the 30th legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1994 at the age of 28...
  
   - former Pennsylvania State Representative
• Eddie Ifft
  Eddie ifft
  Eddie Ifft is an American stand-up comedian and sitcom writer. He lives in Venice, California.Ifft graduated with honors from Fox Chapel Area High School in 1992...
  
   - stand-up comedian
• Anisha Nagarajan
  Anisha Nagarajan
  Anisha Nagarajan; is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the Andrew Lloyd Webber theater musical, Bombay Dreams, and as Madhuri on the 2010 NBC television series, Outsourced.-Early life:...
  
   (2002) - Actress and singer
• Beth Stern - wife of Howard Stern
  Howard Stern
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• Rick Strom (American football)
  Rick Strom (American football)
  Rick Strom graduated from Fox Chapel Area High School. Strom is a former American Football quarterback in the National Football League. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills and the Detroit Lions...
  
   - former professional football player and current football commentator
• William Thomas (ice hockey) - professional ice hockey player
• Leo Wisniewski
  Leo Wisniewski
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   - former professional football player
• Torey Barr - Professional Mascot - Columbus Clippers

Current student body

As of 2006.

Subset	Number of students	Percent
All	1640	100%
White	1514	92.3%
African American	25	1.5%
Asian	79	4.8%
Hispanic	21	1.3%
American Indian	1	0.1%
Male	840	51.2%
Female	800	48.8%

External links

• Fox Chapel Area High School
• Fox Chapel Area Adult Education