PPS accepts Wilkinsburg School District students

Wilkinsburg has taken one more step to ultimately merge with the City of Pittsburgh. First, outsourcing their fire department and waste management responsibilities.  Now, another huge step in that transition has been taken. Recently, the Wilkinsburg school board voted unanimously, 9-0, to merge both middle and high school students with Westinghouse 6-12 graders in a move that many see as a foreshadowing of more mergers to come. The Pittsburgh School Board voted 7-2 to accept them.
Wilkinsburg has 217 students in 7th through 12th grade with less than 100 in high school. It simply became too small to justify its large building and cost overhead. Westinghouse has twice as many students.
The main difference in education is that Westinghouse offers a few advanced placement classes and several vocational programs such as culinary arts and cosmetology. Most importantly, Westinghouse has a commodity that is scarce to come by in Wilkinsburg—books.