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 â John Marshall School for the Gifted & Talented.
Incidents
In August 2021 the school announced new safety measures after several days of cars driving on sidewalks and lawns at dismissal time.
Athletics
The school's mascot is the Eagles and the colors are Columbia Blue and Scarlet. The Marshall Eagles have several sports teams including:
The boys cross country team won a state championship in 1970.
Demographics
John Marshall High School's demographics as of 2017âÂÂ2018 were:
- 0.1% Native American/Alaska Native, 1 student
- 6.2% Asian, 50 students
- 85.0% Black, 681 students
- 2.6% Hispanic, 21 students
- 0% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 0 students
- 4.5% White, 36 students
- 1.5% Two or more race, 12 students
Notable graduates
- Michael J. Barber, engineer and Chief Diversity Officer of General Electric
- Mandela Barnes, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, former state legislator
- David Berger, Wisconsin state senator
- David Cullen, Wisconsin state representative and county supervisor
- Floyd Heard, Olympic sprinter
- Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe columnist and 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist
- Warren Kozak, writer and journalist
- Shirley Krug, Wisconsin state representative, first woman to become a Democratic Party floor leader in the Wisconsin Legislature
- Mona Sutphen, lobbyist, foreign service officer and White House aide under Clinton and Obama
- Mike Taylor, NBA Player
- George Tillman Jr., filmmaker and television producer
- Sheldon Wasserman, Wisconsin state legislator and physician
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