University Prep was established in 2008 by a partnership between the
University of Pittsburgh and
Pittsburgh Public Schools. It opened with 145 ninth grade students for the 2008-09 school year. The school added a tenth grade class and middle school classes for the 2009-10 school year, added eleventh grade class in the 2010-2011 school year, and added twelfth grade classes in successive years. Its first graduating class was in 2012. ==Campus==