Also bordering (but across the Monongahela River from) Woodland Hills School District, is: West Mifflin S.D., Steel Valley S.D., and Duquesne City S.D. Woodland Hills School District is bordered by eight other school districts: Pittsburgh S.D., Penn Hills S.D., Gateway S.D., East Allegheny S.D., Wilkinsburg Borough S.D. The resultant court order created a single large school district of over 7,000 students comprised almost equally of white and black students. This resulted in African American students being transported long distances past all White schools and vice versa. The suit was filed to address the fact that the seven districts were all composed almost exclusively of all white or all black student enrollments. It was formed from an amalgamation of seven separate districts in the eastern region of Allegheny County in suburban Pittsburgh. The Woodland Hills School District is unique in that it was formed by a court order (one of only three such districts so formed in Pennsylvania) in 1982 as a result of a Civil Rights Act lawsuit filed by various residents of the prior school districts. Woodland Hills School District was formed in July 1981 by a mandated merger of Edgewood, General Braddock, Swissvale, Churchill and Turtle Creek school districts. Woodland Hills School District received more than $27.3 million in state funding in school year 2007–08. In school year 2007-08 the Woodland Hills School District provided basic educational services to 4,865 pupils through the employment of 400 teachers, 162 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 42 administrators. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 52,876. Woodland Hills School District encompasses approximately 12 square miles (31 km 2).
Woodland Hills School District is a public school district located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, serving twelve municipalities in the Pittsburgh area Braddock, Braddock Hills, Chalfant, Churchill, East Pittsburgh, Edgewood, Forest Hills, North Braddock, Rankin, Swissvale, Turtle Creek and Wilkins Township. Whatever it takes.our children are worth it!Įnrollment projected to decline to 3149 in 2020 įor nonresident and charter school students ES - $10,573.97, HS - $11,969.63