John Marshall High School (Wisconsin)

John Marshall High School is a public high school located on 4141 North 64th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 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.^[1] The school had 1097 students during the 2004-2005 school year. 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.

The school has several sports teams including football, basketball, and baseball. The school's mascot is the Eagles and the colors are Columbia Blue and Scarlet.

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^[2]
• David Cullen, Wisconsin Assemblyman and county supervisor
• Floyd Heard - Olympic sprinter^[3]
• Derrick Jackson - Boston Globe columnist and 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist^[4]
• Warren Kozak - writer and journalist ^[5]
• Mona Sutphen - lobbyist, foreign service officer and White House aide under Clinton and Obama^[6]
• George Tillman, Jr. - filmmaker and television producer^[7]

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