Shady Side Academy is an independent preparatory school Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in Greater Pittsburgh. Founded in 1883 as an all-male night school in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the academy now offers a secular coeducational PK–12 program on four campuses in the city and its suburbs, including a boarding program in the Croft and Morewood Houses of its Senior School Campus.
The first Shady Side Academy building: a one-room red brick schoolhouse in the Shadyside neighborhood, 1883
Rowe Hall, the LEED-certified main academic and administrative building of the Senior School campus
David McCullough '51, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
Jonathan Zittrain '87, professor at Harvard Law School
Fox Chapel is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a suburb of Pittsburgh located 6 miles (10 km) northeast of downtown. The population was 5,343 as of the 2020 census. The borough continually garners national prominence and is home to many of the wealthiest and most powerful patriciate families in Pennsylvania.
Shady Side Academy upper school campus