Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania)

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Thomas Jefferson High School (Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania)
310 Old Clairton Road
Jefferson Hills, PA 15025 Coordinates: 40°17′50″N79°56′21″W / 40.297129°N 79.939291°W / 40.297129; -79.939291

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TypePublic
EstablishedJuly 15–18, 1957; first graduating class June 1960
School districtWest Jefferson Hills School District
PrincipalPete Murphy
Grades912
Enrollment889 (2016-17) [1]
Color(s)   
MascotJaguar
Website West Jefferson Hills School District

Thomas Jefferson High School is an American public secondary school located in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the West Jefferson Hills School District which includes West Elizabeth, Jefferson Hills and Pleasant Hills. These communities have a combined population of 15,000.

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History

As of 2015 the school district is designing a new building for the school. It will be a red brick building modeled off of Monticello, with an initial estimated cost of $100 million. [2]

Extracurricular activities

The high school offers a variety of clubs and activities. The Thomas Jefferson American football team won the WPIAL Class AAA Championships in 1980 at Pitt Stadium and in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020 at Heinz Field. In 2004, 2007, 2008 2019, and 2020 the team won the PIAA State Championship in Hershey. [3]

The school newspaper is called the Statesman. [4] 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: saxophones, flutes, trombones, trumpets, piccolos, clarinets, drumline, tubas, majorettes, and colorguard each year. 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 [5] in 2022.[ citation needed ]

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. "Thomas Jefferson HS". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  2. Hacke, Stephanie (2015-11-12). "New TJ High School building project under way". Triblive.com . Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  3. Pittsburgh Live Archived 2007-01-11 at the Wayback Machine , November 25, 2006
  4. TJ Statesman
  5. "Pittsburgh CLO - Gene Kelly Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2007-02-19.

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