Editing Brentwood, Pennsylvania (section)

==Education==
Brentwood is served by the Brentwood Borough School District.

The Court of Common Pleas appointed Brentwood's first school board who took charge of school business in July 1916, and the first group of teachers were hired that same year in September. Brentwood's first school was '''Moore Elementary School''', then only a four-room school house, which is still in use by children and teachers. Because Moore School was not sufficient in size for all the students in the borough, '''Elroy School''' was built about three-quarters of a mile away toward [[Pittsburgh]], and renovations were completed in 1925 to both schools.

The first '''[[Brentwood High School (Brentwood, Pennsylvania)|Brentwood High School]]''' opened in the basement of Elroy School in September 1925 and only taught through ninth grade. The high school was newly built in 1932 adjacent to the current Brentwood Park; an addition was constructed in 1939 because of the increase in population, and once again in 1959. This renovation included more rooms and a new gymnasium.

In the late 1960s, Pennsylvania experienced a consolidation of school districts. Some wanted the Brentwood school district to be folded into the Baldwin-Whitehall district. However, this consolidation was never realized, and in 1972 a new four-story building containing classrooms and an indoor pool was constructed.

In the early 1990s the consensus on the school board was to close Moore and Elroy schools and consolidate them into an expanded K-12th grade facility at the existing high school. An intense community debate on whether to close Moore and Elroy schools ensued with the supporters of preserving and rehabilitating Moore and Elroy prevailing. In 1997, the board of directors fully modernized and remodeled Elroy School and Moore School received two new additional classrooms. The district also built a new academic wing to the front of the 1939 building, and a second gymnasium was placed on the demolished third and fourth floors of the 1972 addition.

'''St. Sylvester School''' was established in September 1948 as a large church, lunch room, and a small four-classroom Catholic elementary school.  St. Sylvester served as Brentwood's parochial elementary school, teaching children from preschool to 8th grade.  The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh closed the school in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2019/07/15/Pittsburgh-Catholic-Schools-St-Sylvester-closing-merger-regionalize/stories/201907150082|title = Catholic Diocese announces closure of St. Sylvester school in Brentwood}}</ref>