James Madison High School (New York)
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| James Madison High School |
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| Established | Over 75 years ago. |
| Type | Public high school |
| Principal | Joseph Gogliormella |
| Students | 4004 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Location | 3787 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, NY 11229 , United States |
| Colors | Black & Gold |
| Telephone | (718) 758-7200 |
| School Number | 428 |
James Madison High School is a public high school located at 3787 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, and educates grades 9 through 12. It is part of Region 6 in the New York City Department of Education. The current principal is Joseph Gogliormella.
Built over 75 years ago, James Madison has graduated several Nobel Prize winners[1], famous musicians, authors, sports players, and a United States Supreme Court Justice.
The 2006 election of Bernard Sanders (I-VT) to the U.S. Senate, meant that three sitting Senators, including Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Norm Coleman (R-MN), will be graduates of James Madison.
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[edit] Notable alumni
- Cal Abrams, Major League Baseball Player
- Larry Baxter, Professional Basketball Player
- Gary Becker, Nobel Prize Winner - Economics
- Mimi Benzell, Opera Singer (deceased)
- Albert Blumenthal, New York State Assembly Leader
- Carmela Seidel Bourcier, Executive Producer
- Andrew Dice Clay, Comedian
- Norm Coleman, US Senator (Minnesota)
- Stanley Cohen, Nobel Prize winner
- Sonny Fox, TV Personality
- William Gaines, Publisher of Mad Magazine
- Marty Glickman, Olympian, Sports Broadcaster
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice
- Stanley Kaplan, Educational Testing Innovator
- Stanley Karnow, Pulitzer Prize Author
- Carole King (Klein),singer/songwriter
- Martin Landau, Actor
- Rudy LaRusso, Professional Basketball Player
- John William Malone, U.S Congressman
- Bruce Morrow, "Cousin Brucie" of Radio
- Sylvia Porter, Financial Columnist (deceased)
- Chris Rock, Comedian
- Bernard Sanders, U.S. Senator (Vermont)
- Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator (New York)
- Irwin Shaw, Novelist (deceased)
- Judy Blum Sheindlin, Judge/TV Personality
- Claire Shulman Kantoff, Queens Borough President
- Janis Siegel, Singer
- Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner-Economics
- Frank Torre, Professional Baseball player
- Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, University President
- Roger Shulman, Screenwriter ALF, Shrek
- Thaddeus Boyd (1980), an African American realist and actor (Tears of the Sun).
- Howie Klein,President of Reprise/Warner Bros. Records between 1989 and 2001, and a Progressive political activist.
- Daniel Shur - devoted firefighter who died on 9/11
[edit] Statistics
- Total Student Population - 4,004
- Female - 1,848 = 46.15%
- Male - 2,156 = 53.85%
- Ethnicity
- American Indian - 7 = 0.17%
- Asian / Pac. Islam - 638 = 15.93%
- Hispanic - 497 = 12.41%
- Black - 916 = 22.88%
- White - 1,880 = 46.95%
- Not Reported - 66 = 1.65%
- English Language Learners (ELL)
- ELL - 317 = 7.92%
- Special Education
- General Ed - 3,688 = 92.11%
- Least Restrictive Environment - 189 = 4.72%
- Most Restrictive Environment - 127 = 3.17%
