Mars Area High School Fightin’ Planets have earned the title of Best High School Mascot in America as the winner of the 2026 National High School Mascot Brackets competition.

A new four-year partnership between Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will give CMU students direct, on-campus access to world-class musicians and conductors.

Mars Area Centennial School sixth-graders Jackson Nuttall, Jonah Snyder, Mya Vernon, Asher Detore, Landon Lewis and Jack Baumgartel achieved the school’s Top 6 scores in the 2025-2026 Pennsylvania Mathematics League Contest.

Mars Girls Youth Lacrosse Association’s U12 Team took first place in the 2025 Graveyard Fall Tournament, held on Nov. 1 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Canton, Ohio). The team went undefeated.

Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh has been nationally recognized as one of the Best Schools in America by Niche, the country’s leading college and school search platform.

Fox Chapel Area High School ninth-grader Rishabh Krishnamurthy has been named one of the Top 300 Junior Innovators in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC).

Bishop Canevin High School welcomes Tim Tyree, Jr. as the 17th head coach in the history of the Crusaders Boys Basketball Program.

Twenty-seven Fox Chapel Area High School recent graduates were named 2025 Top Scholars.