Madison High School (Houston)

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James Madison High School
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Madison High School (Houston)
13719 White Heather Drive

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77045

United States
Coordinates 29°37′48″N95°26′13″W / 29.6299°N 95.43687°W / 29.6299; -95.43687
Information
Former nameJames Madison Junior-Senior High School
TypePublic
EstablishedSeptember 8, 1968;55 years ago (1968-09-08)
School district Houston Independent School District
NCES District ID 482364002530 [1]
PrincipalYolanda Bruce
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,778 (2019-2020) [1]
Student to teacher ratio19.28 [1]
Color(s)Light blue, red and white
    [2]
Nickname Marlins [2]
Website houstonisd.org/Madison

James Madison High School is a public high school located in the Hiram Clarke area of Houston, Texas, United States. [3] The school, located in the Five Corners District, [4] serves grades 9 through 12 and is part of the Houston Independent School District. The school is named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States.

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Madison contains HISD's magnet program for Space and Meteorological Sciences; the program is known as the High School for Meteorology & Space Science.

History

Former Madison High School building MadisonHighSchoolHouston.JPG
Former Madison High School building

James Madison Junior-Senior High School was opened on September 8, 1965. In February 1968, Dick Dowling Junior High School (now Audrey Lawson Middle School) was opened and James Madison became a high school that temporarily taught 9th graders for that first year. By the next year, it was for grades 10 through 12. [5]

In 1974 Carrie Rochon McAfee became the principal of Madison and worked there for 15 years. She was the first woman to become the principal of a traditional public high school in Texas. The Madison community knows her as "Marlin Mama." [6]

In the northern hemisphere fall of 1981, Madison again covered the ninth grade. [7]

In the 1980s the school was called the "James Madison Academy of International Education." [8]

The magnet program opened in 1995 with a partnership with KPRC-TV (Channel 2). [5]

In 2007, a study by the Associated Press and Johns Hopkins University referred to Madison as a "dropout factory" where at least 40% of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year. [9]

In the period 2014-2019 Madison had five principals. In early 2019, Carlotta Outley Brown, previously principal of Peck Elementary School, became the principal; this occurred at the mid-point of the second semester of the 2018-2019 school year. [10]

Location

Madison is in Houston's neighborhood "Hiram Clarke" nearby Hiram Clarke Road and West Orem Street, a major thoroughfare. [5]

Neighborhoods served by Madison

Houston neighborhoods served by Madison [11] include portions of Almeda, Link Valley and the Hiram Clarke area, including Dumbarton Village, Almeda Plaza, Almeda Manor, Brentwood, Keswick Place, Westbrook, Krogerville, Briarwick, Townwood, Cambridge Village, Corinthian Pointe, [12] Glen Iris (including Angel Lane), Meredith Manor, Pamela Heights, Post Oak Village, [13] Summerlyn , San Pablo [ permanent dead link ], Willow Glen, and Windsor Village. In addition portions of unincorporated Harris County are served by Madison. One Houston Housing Authority public housing complex, Peninsula Park, is zoned to Madison High. [14]

In 1970 Westwood, along with some other White communities, was rezoned from Westbury High School to Madison because of a court ruling. By 1990, Madison was 1% White while Westbury was about 50% Black, 25% White, 15% Hispanic, and 10% Asian. In 1992 an attendance boundary shift occurred but Westwood was still in the Madison zone. The Westwood community advocated for a rezoning to Westbury, [15] and after the community gave a presentation to the HISD board, the board unanimously rezoned the community to Westbury. [16]

Dress code

As of 2019 the students are required to wear school uniforms. In 2019 principal Outley Brown instituted a dress code for parents visiting the school. [10] The principal instituted this after objecting to the dress of a parent trying to register her child for school. [17] This dress code bars parents from wearing pajamas, hair rollers, satin caps, shower caps, and other casual items. [18]

Student body

As of the 2016-2017 school year, 1,661 students attended Madison. [19]

By race/ethnicity:

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Madison High School: [11]

(partial)

All elementary and middle school students of Reagan K-8 are zoned to Madison. [28] [29] Portions of the Dowling Middle School, [30] Pershing Middle School [31] and Welch Middle School boundaries feed into Madison. [32] Any students zoned to Pershing may apply to Pin Oak Middle School's regular program, so Pin Oak also feeds into Madison. [33]

Notable alumni

Further reading

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