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WHEREAS, Pittsburgh Greenfield is a PreK-8 beloved neighborhood school drawing students from six surrounding communities located in Pittsburg’s Greenfield community. It house 408 students with 97% of its teacher with more than 3 years of experience and 13 students per teacher. While pursuing strong initiatives in equity , academics and test scores, Greenfield School offers competitive sports for girls and boys and is a culturally balanced school; and,
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WHEREAS, the current school building which is known as Pittsburgh Greenfield is the second iteration of a neighborhood school, the first being built in 1880, with an addition in 1898 and then because it only had 12 classrooms and no additional facilities, a new building was built and the old building converted to apartments and then torn down in 1938; and,
WHEREAS, the current Greenfield School Building, located at 1 Alger Street in Greenfield, was built in 1922 with an auditorium that sat 660 and had a 30x50 foot pool; and,
WHEREAS, Greenfield School exemplified the School Board’s desire in the post World War II era for more sophisticated elementary school facilities as well as architecture and the artist’s desire to showcase quality of design of Pittsburgh Schools of the 1920s. Greenfield School is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is a city Historic Landmark and also has a Pittsburgh History and Landmark Foundation Historic Landmark Plaque
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby recognize and commend Greenfield School for is 100 year old Anniversary, for being noted as one of Pittsburgh’s most architecturally significant schools for the progressiveness of its design with the interior of the entrance lobby, with its geometric and foliated capitals as the highlight of the design.