Forest Hills Public Schools history

By 1905 the coal had been largely mined out and, beginning at East Pittsburgh, Ardmore Boulevard and the street railway were cut through.

The opening of the street railway in 1910 induced more families to move into this area.

The first schoolhouse was Woodside School, built in 1914 to replace a two-room frame building at Glasgow and Braddock Roads which Forest Hills had inherited from Braddock Township.

Wilkins and Braddock Townships were bitterly opposed to the removal of this area from them, but they were unsuccessful in court action and on July 29, 1919, Forest Hills was incorporated as a borough.

Shortwave-The Voice of the World In 1923 Westinghouse opened a special radio facility in Forest Hills Borough to experiment with long distance transmissions.

In 1936, an area adjacent to Braddock Road and Ardmore Boulevard, was acquired for the Forest Hills Park, with the legal provision that this property belonged to the taxpayers of the Borough and can never be sold without their consent.

The Forest Hills Public School District was founded in 1956 when residents in 13 neighboring one-room schoolhouses consolidated into one district.

Cliffwood Park, in the Rockwood Area, was deeded to the Borough in 1973.

Woodland Hills merger, which included Forest Hills and eleven other communities, was implemented in 1982.

Yes, dreams really do come true! The dream of having an environmental school in the Forest Hills School District was hard to imagine, but after the approval from the Board of Education it became a reality in the fall of 1999.