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John Marshall High School (Wisconsin)

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Type
  
Public high school

Grades
  
6-12

Team name
  
Eagles

Faculty
  
50

Enrollment
  
1,359 (2014-2015)

School district
  
Milwaukee School District

John Marshall High School is a public high school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States). John Marshall is part of the Milwaukee Public School system. Formerly a junior-senior high school, the 7th and 8th grades were dropped in 1979 to expand the growing senior high. Recently, the school was redesigned into three divisions: Marshall Montessori IB High School, High School of Sports Education and Employment, and Foster & Williams Visual Communication Campus. As of 2009, the school merged with Samuel Morse Middle School for the Gifted and Talented to form Samuel J. Morse ● John Marshall School for the Gifted & Talented.

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Athletics

The school's mascot is the Eagles and the colors are Columbia Blue and Scarlet. The Marshall Eagles have several sports teams including:

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Soccer
  • Track and Field
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling

    • Demographics

    John Marshall High School is:

  • 8.2% White, 99 students
  • 77.1% Black, 926 students
  • 8.7% Asian/Pacific Islander, 105 students
  • 5.8% Hispanic, 70 students
  • 0.1% Am. Indian/Alaska Native, 1 student

    • Notable graduates

  • Mandela Barnes, Democratic State Representative of Wisconsin's 11th Assembly District
  • David Berger - Wisconsin State Senator
  • David Cullen, Wisconsin Assemblyman and county supervisor
  • Floyd Heard - Olympic sprinter
  • Derrick Jackson - Boston Globe columnist and 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist
  • Warren Kozak - writer and journalist
  • Mona Sutphen - lobbyist, foreign service officer and White House aide under Clinton and Obama
  • George Tillman, Jr. - filmmaker and television producer

    • References

    John Marshall High School (Wisconsin) Wikipedia
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