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==Education== Public education is provided by the [[Fox Chapel Area School District]]. The high school is located in O'Hara Township. The middle school is located in [[Dorseyville, Pennsylvania|Dorseyville]], a small community five miles to the north of the borough in Indiana Township. Elementary school children attend schools located in either Indiana Township or O'Hara Township. These are O'Hara Elementary, Kerr, Fairview, and Hartwood. Fox Chapel Area School District, which includes the communities of [[Aspinwall, Pennsylvania|Aspinwall]], Fox Chapel, Indiana Township, O'Hara Township, [[Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania|Sharpsburg]], and [[Blawnox, Pennsylvania|Blawnox]], has received numerous awards in the past; each of its schools have been named [[National Blue Ribbon Schools Program|National Blue Ribbon Schools]], and the Fox Chapel Area High School has been awarded the Silver Medal rank by the U.S. News & World Report.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/pennsylvania/districts/fox-chapel-area-school-district |title=Fox Chapel Area School District |access-date=2017-08-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305081034/http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/pennsylvania/districts/fox-chapel-area-school-district |archive-date=2016-03-05 }}</ref> Fox Chapel is home to [[Shady Side Academy]], a [[Mixed-sex education|co-educational]] [[Independent school|independent]] [[University-preparatory school|college preparatory school]]. Shady Side Academy operates on four separate campuses— a junior school which offers private education for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades one through five known formerly as Fox Chapel Country Day School,a middle school for grades 6–8, and a senior school for grades 9–12. Shady Side Academy has operated in Fox Chapel since the early 1920s, when it relocated its upper school from nearby urban [[Shadyside (Pittsburgh)|Shadyside]] within the Pittsburgh. The middle school campus was a later addition, the result of the academy's 1958 purchase of the former James E. Lewis estate, built in 1928.<ref>{{cite news |title=School names library for young scholar |author=Linda Wilson |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=September 28, 1978 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1IBIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Pm0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2971%2C4294401 |access-date=May 30, 2012}}</ref> Both campuses and their playing fields are located in the vicinity of the [[Pittsburgh Golf Club]]. Shady Side Academy's fourth campus, the urban junior school, is located in the city in [[Point Breeze (Pittsburgh)|Point Breeze]]. Fox Chapel Country Day School which is now part of Shady Side Academy, offers private education for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades one through five. The Fox Chapel [[Chabad]] Community Hebrew School has classes on Sunday and Wednesday and offers a supplemental Jewish education.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.foxchapeljewish.com/|title=Chabad of Fox Chapel|date=October 8, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008131231/http://www.foxchapeljewish.com/ |archive-date=2007-10-08 }}</ref> The Pittsburgh Japanese School (ピッツバーグ日本語補習授業校 ''Pittsubāgu Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō''), a [[hoshu jugyo ko|weekend supplementary Japanese school]], uses the middle school facilities of Shady Side Academy.<ref>"[http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/002.htm 北米の補習授業校一覧(平成25年4月15日現在)]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140330155208/http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/002/006/001/002/002.htm Archive]) [[MEXT]]. Retrieved on May 5, 2014. "c/o Shady Side Academy Middle School, 500 Squaw Run Road East, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, U.S.A"</ref><ref>"[http://www.fox-chapel.pa.us/pdf_files/zoningmap.pdf Zoning Map]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072828/http://www.fox-chapel.pa.us/pdf_files/zoningmap.pdf Archive]). Borough of Fox Chapel. Retrieved on May 6, 2014.</ref> The school, established in 1993, originated from a group of parents starting a Japanese class system in 1977.<ref>"[http://www.pittsburghjapaneseschool.org/englishhome In English]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140506150524/http://www.pittsburghjapaneseschool.org/englishhome Archive]). Pittsburgh Japanese School. Retrieved on May 6, 2014.</ref>
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