Madison High School is a

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located in Madison Heights,

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, United States, in

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. Its

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is the

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. It is a part of

Madison District Public Schools Madison District Public Schools is a school district serving the south end of Madison Heights, Michigan in Greater Detroit. Madison District Public Schools is located in Oakland County in southeastern Michigan and currently serves 1350 students ...

. The original high school was built in 1924 to serve students who had attended the one-room school houses in the southern half of what is now Madison Heights. Its first graduating class, in 1929, consisted of two students. The Madison School District became a graded district in 1925. The original high school's gymnasium had its first electric scoreboard in 1941, the result of a magazine sale conducted by the Eagles

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team. In 1958 the current Madison High School was built; the former high school is now Wilkinson Middle School.

Notable alumni

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(1982), Republican

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of North Carolina's 2nd congressional district

References

External links

Official website
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