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Upper St. Clair is a township with home rule status in southern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, located approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of Downtown Pittsburgh. It is known for being an affluent suburb with a nationally recognized school district. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 21,160.
The Upper St. Clair School District is a K–12 public school district serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb of Upper St. Clair. The district encompasses 9.83 mi 2 (25.45 km 2 ) and shares its boundaries with its namesake township.
The district also contained many of Allegheny County's southern suburbs of Pittsburgh, which ranged from traditionally wealthy areas such as Upper St. Clair to middle-class communities such as Bethel Park and working-class labor towns such as Elizabeth. The district skewed older and had the second-oldest electorate in the state in 2017. [4]
Upper St. Clair High School was established in 1957, with the creation of a tenth grade class. [6] Prior to 1957, Upper St. Clair students completing the ninth grade at Ft. Couch School were then enrolled as transfer students at neighboring high schools, primarily Mt. Lebanon, with Upper St. Clair Township paying their tuition as out-of ...
The "upper" and "lower" referred to the elevation, as Lower St. Clair bordered on the river, the lowest elevation, and Upper St. Clair extended into the South Hills of Pittsburgh. The original Lower St. Clair Township consisted of the present-day neighborhoods of the City of Pittsburgh south of the Monongahela and Ohio, and all or parts of ...
The Fulton Log House in Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania, was built circa 1830. The log house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1975. [1] Alexander Gilfillan settled in Upper St. Clair Township in the late 1760s and eventually owned 413 acres.
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Bethel Park (officially the Municipality of Bethel Park[3]) is a borough with home rule status [4] in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a suburb within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, located approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Pittsburgh. The population was 33,577 as of the 2020 census.
The township was created by a division of St. Clair Township into Lower St. Clair and Upper St. Clair townships. St. Clair Township was named after Arthur St. Clair, an American Revolutionary War general and president of the Continental Congress . Lower St. Clair Township originally included the area from Chartiers Creek to Streets Run ...