Cardozo Senior High School
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Cardozo Senior High School is a secondary school at 13th and Clifton Street in northwest Washington, D.C. in the Columbia Heights neighborhood.
Cardozo is operated by District of Columbia Public Schools. The school is named after Francis Cardozo, the first African American to hold an administrative office in South Carolina. [1]The U St./African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Metro Stop is partially named after this school.
The video for the Don't Copy That Floppy anti-software piracy campaign was shot at Cardozo.
[edit] Famous Alumni
The following distingushed individuals are Alumnus of Cardozo:
- R&B singer Marvin Gaye
- NBA basketball player Moochis Norris
- MLB baseball player Maury Wills
- NFL Football player Octavius Cash
[edit] Feeder patterns
The following elementary schools feed into Cardozo:
- Bancroft
- Bruce-Monroe
- Cleveland
- Gage-Eckington
- Garrison
- Meyer
- Noyes
- Raymond
- Marie Reed
- Seaton
- Shaed
- Slowe
- Tubman
The following middle schools feed into Cardozo:
- Garnet-Patterson
- Lincoln
- Shaw