John Marshall High School (Wisconsin)
John Marshall High School is a public high school located 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. 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.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
The boys cross country team won a state championship in 1970.Demographics
John Marshall High School's demographics as of 2017–2018 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
- Mandela Barnes, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
- 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
- Mona Sutphen - lobbyist, foreign service officer and White House aide under Clinton and Obama
- George Tillman, Jr. - filmmaker and television producer
- Mike Taylor - NBA Player
