Frustratingly, when I think "high variance," Allerdice is precisely what comes to mind. I volunteer for the FIRST Robotics program in Pittsburgh. A couple of y

Frustratingly, when I think "high variance," Allerdice is precisely what comes to mind. I volunteer for the FIRST Robotics program in Pittsburgh. A couple of years ago, I was chatting with some of the students from Allerdice who also volunteer and were away from school that day due to their team being in the competition---at about the same time that a few miles away, the police were breaking up a large-group fight in Allerdice itself. Allerdice (last time I checked) is a good school with some real problems. But it's a good school.