James Madison High School is a public high school located in the
Hiram Clarke
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History
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area of
Houston
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,
Texas
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,
United States
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Five Corners District, serves grades 9 through 12 and is part of the
Houston Independent School District
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. The school is named after
James Madison
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, 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
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.
[History]
" ''Madison High School''. May 24, 2003. Retrieved on July 27, 2009.
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."
In the northern hemisphere fall of 1981, Madison again covered the ninth grade.
In the 1980s the school was called the "James Madison Academy of International Education."
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''. Tuesday July 4, 1989. Houston Section, Page 1. Retrieved on October 26, 2011.
The magnet program opened in 1995 with a partnership with
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(Channel 2).
In 2007, a study by the
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and
Johns Hopkins University
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referred to Madison as a "dropout factory" where at least 40% of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year.
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.
Location
Madison is in Houston's neighborhood "Hiram Clarke" nearby Hiram Clarke Road and West Orem Street, a major thoroughfare.
Neighborhoods served by Madison
Houston neighborhoods served by Madison
[Madison High School Attendance Zone]
." ''Houston Independent School District
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''. include portions of
Almeda,
Link Valley and the
Hiram Clarke
Hiram Clarke is an area in Houston, Texas, United States, southwest of NRG Park (formerly Reliant Park).
History
Hiram Clarke Road was named after Hiram Clarke, a Houston Lighting & Power Co. assistant general manager and executive vice president ...
area, including Dumbarton Village, Almeda Plaza, Almeda Manor,
Brentwood, Keswick Place, Westbrook, Krogerville, Briarwick, Townwood, Cambridge Village,
Corinthian Pointe,
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(including Angel Lane), Meredith Manor, Pamela Heights, Post Oak Village, Summerly
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Willow Glen, and
Windsor Village, Houston, Windsor Village. In addition portions of unincorporated
Harris County are served by Madison. One
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public housing complex, Peninsula Park, is zoned to Madison High.
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, and after the community gave a presentation to the HISD board, the board unanimously rezoned the community to Westbury.
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Dress code
the students are required to wear
school uniforms. In 2019 principal Outley Brown instituted a dress code for parents visiting the school.
[ The principal instituted this after objecting to the dress of a parent trying to register her child for school. This dress code bars parents from wearing pajamas, hair rollers, satin caps, shower caps, and other casual items.
]
Student body
As of the 2016-2017 school year, 1,661 students attended Madison.
By race/ethnicity:
* 58% were Hispanic
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* 40% were African American
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* 1% were white
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* 1% were Asian-Pacific Islander
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s
* Less than 1% were Native American
* Less that 1% were of 2 or more races/ethnicities
Notable alumni
* Michael Arceneaux
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- Author of '' I Can't Date Jesus''
* Kirk Baptiste - 1984 Olympics silver medalist.[Distinguished HISD Alumni]
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''.
* Lance Blanks - Former basketball
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player for the Detroit Pistons
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. (Did not graduate from Madison)
* Brett Cullen
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- Actor
* Greg Kite - Former basketball player for the Boston Celtics, the Los Angeles Clippers
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, the Sacramento Kings
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, the Orlando Magic, the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers.
* Chuck LaMar
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First General Manager of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Baseball Club
* Tommy Mason-Griffin - Professional basketball player.
* Jerel Myers - Former American football player of the Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins
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.
* Moran Norris - Fullback for the Houston Texans.
* Broderick Thomas
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- Former American football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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, the Detroit Lions, the Minnesota Vikings
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, and the Dallas Cowboys
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* Vince Young
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- Former American football player
Feeder patterns
The following elementary schools feed into Madison High School:
*Fondren
*Grissom
*Hines-Caldwell
*Hobby
*Montgomery
*Petersen
*Windsor Village
(partial)
*Shearn
All elementary and middle school students of Reagan K-8 are zoned to Madison.[Agenda Board of Education Meeting March 08, 2012]
." Houston Independent School District
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. "Current - Grissom, Montgomery, Peterson, & Hobby Elementary Schools Attachment 1," "Proposed - Grissom, Montgomery, Petersen, & Hobby Elementary Schools Attachment 2," "Current - Reagan and Dowling Middle Schools Attachment 3," and "Proposed - Reagan and Dowling Middle Schools Attachment 4." Retrieved on June 14, 2012.
Archive
Portions of the Dowling Middle School, Pershing Middle School and Welch Middle School boundaries feed into Madison. Any students zoned to Pershing may apply to Pin Oak Middle School
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's regular program, so Pin Oak also feeds into Madison.[Pin Oak Middle School]
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Further reading
* McAdams, Donald R. ''Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!: Lessons from Houston''. Teachers College Press
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, 2000. , 9780807770351.
References
External links
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Houston Independent School District high schools
Magnet schools in Texas
Public high schools in Houston
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