[3] The borough continually garners national prominence and is home to many of the wealthiest and most powerful patriciate families in Pennsylvania.

Until the late 18th century, American Indian tribes hunted and fished in the general Fox Chapel area.

Shady Side Academy opened its senior school on property that was formerly two large farms, a gift from prominent Pittsburgh industrialist Wallace H. Rowe, in 1922.

A nearby private estate, built in 1928 by steel industrialist James E. Lewis, became the academy's standalone middle school campus in 1958.

The church facility has grown to include a Christian Education building, atrium, fellowship hall and a Georgian sanctuary.

[18] Adat Shalom, located on Guys Run Road in Indiana Township, serves approximately 240 Jewish families from the Fox Chapel area.

[20] Fox Chapel is home to Shady Side Academy, a co-educational independent college preparatory school.

Shady Side Academy has operated in Fox Chapel since the early 1920s, when it relocated its upper school from nearby urban Shadyside within the Pittsburgh.

Shady Side Academy's fourth campus, the urban junior school, is located in the city in Point Breeze.

Fox Chapel Country Day School which is now part of Shady Side Academy, offers private education for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades one through five.

The Fox Chapel Chabad Community Hebrew School has classes on Sunday and Wednesday and offers a supplemental Jewish education.