Cardozo Education Campus Explained

Cardozo Education Campus
Coordinates:38.9219°N -77.0284°W
Address:1200 Clifton Street Northwest[1]
City:Washington, DC
Zipcode:20009
Country:USA
Schooltype:Public high school
District:District of Columbia Public Schools Ward 1
Grades:6 to 12
Ceeb:090075
Principal:Arthur Mola
Campus Type:Urban
Enrollment:831 (as of SY2019-2020)[2]
Faculty:83.0 (as of the 2019-2020 school year) (on FTE basis)
Ratio:10.01
Mascot:Clerks[3]
Colors:Purple, white

Cardozo Education Campus, formerly Cardozo Senior High School and Central High School, is a combined middle and high school at 13th and Clifton Street in northwest Washington, D.C., United States, in the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Cardozo is operated by District of Columbia Public Schools. The school is named after clergyman, politician, and educator Francis Lewis Cardozo.

Central High School

The Advanced Grammar School for Boys was established in 1877 and then combined with a similar school for girls in 1882 to form Washington High School, the first high school in the city. In 1890, the High School was split into three, with one high school opened in the current Peabody Elementary School building on Capitol Hill and another in Georgetown in the Curtis Building. As a result, the Washington High School became known as Central High School.[4] In 1916, the school moved from Seventh and O to Thirteenth and Clifton.

Marian Anderson controversy

In 1939, writing on behalf of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia now the District of Columbia State Board of Education, Superintendent Frank Ballou denied a request by contralto Marian Anderson to sing at the auditorium of the segregated white Central High School. As justification, he cited a federal law from 1906 requiring separate schools for the District. Meanwhile, the Daughters of the American Revolution had rejected a similar application. [5]

When Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from that organization in protest, author Zora Neale Hurston criticized her for remaining silent about the fact that the Board had also excluded Anderson. “As far as the high-school auditorium is concerned,” Hurston declared “to jump the people responsible for racial bias would be to accuse and expose the accusers themselves. The District of Columbia has no home rule; it is controlled by congressional committees, and Congress at the time was overwhelmingly Democratic. It was controlled by the very people who were screaming so loudly against the DAR. To my way of thinking, both places should have been denounced, or neither.” Although Anderson later performed at an open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial, the Board retained its policy of exclusion.[6]

Cardozo Senior High School

Known locally as "the castle on the hill", Cardozo's building was designed by architect William B. Ittner, a school building architect. The building was dedicated on February 15, 1917.[7] Cardozo Senior High School was established in 1928. Originally located at Rhode Island Avenue and Ninth Street NW, it relocated to the Central High School building in 1950 and renamed.[8] Cardozo was assigned for "colored" students in the segregated system and became one of three black high schools in DC.

The U Street Metro station is partially named after this school, with "Cardozo" in the station's subtitle.[9] Likewise, an alternative, Urban Renewal-era name for the Columbia Heights neighborhood is Upper Cardozo, and some of the public buildings in the area still bear this name.

Until the 1954 opening of the all-black Luther Jackson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia,[10] Cardozo and several other DCPS schools, along with a school in Manassas, Virginia, enrolled black secondary school students from the Fairfax County Public Schools as that district did not yet operate secondary schools for blacks.[11]

Renovation

In December 2011, work began to completely renovate Cardozo. In all, the renovation cost approximately $130 million and the school reopened for a new school year in August 2013.[12] In addition to the physical changes to the building itself, the student body was increased with the addition of middle school students from the now-closed Shaw Middle School and the campus was renamed as Cardozo Education Campus.

Shootings

Four different shootings happened on the school campus: the first on January 23, 1969 (1 dead, no injuries); the second on January 6, 1995 (1 dead, no injuries); the third on April 2, 2003 (1 injured, no deaths); and the fourth on September 22, 2006 (1 injured, no deaths).[13] [14]

Notable alumni

Central High School

Cardozo Senior High

Feeder patterns

The following elementary schools feed into Cardozo:

The following middle schools feed into Cardozo:

Notes and References

  1. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:530896 GNIS entry for Cardozo Senior High School
  2. Web site: DC School Report Card. dc.gov. 16 June 2020.
  3. Web site: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. 29 July 2015.
  4. News: The High Schools. 22 September 1890. The Evening Star. 25 March 2016.
  5. Beito . David . Zora and Eleanor: Toward a Fuller Understanding of the First Lady’s Civil Rights Legacy. Independent Institute . November 15, 2023.
  6. Beito . David . Zora and Eleanor: Toward a Fuller Understanding of the First Lady’s Civil Rights Legacy. Independent Institute . November 15, 2023.
  7. Historic Preservation Review Board, Application Form, Historic Landmark, Exhibit B. History of Central High School. Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, File: Cardozo, Francis, L.
  8. News: New principal has big plans for Cardozo Senior High School. Abbas. Natasha. September 2007. DC North.
  9. Station names updated for new map . . 2011-11-03 . 2011-11-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111105211316/http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=5081 . 2011-11-05 . dead .
  10. "History ." Luther Jackson Middle School. Retrieved on June 4, 2016.
  11. "A history of Luther P. Jackson high school: a report of a case study on the development of a black high school" (abstract). Virginia Tech. Retrieved on June 4, 2016.
  12. News: Brown. Emma. At Cardozo school, high hopes for a cultural transformation to match physical one. The Washington Post. 19 August 2014.
  13. News: Principal's Aide in Capital is Killed Chasing Thieves. The New York Times. 25 January 1969.
  14. News: Cardozo High School III Three shootings since 1995 speak to lessons ignored. - The Washington Post. The Washington Post.
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  27. Book: 1967 . Here's to Old Central, 1882-1950 . Washington, D.C. . Central High School Alumni Association . 51 . Google Books.
  28. News: Adm. John S. McCain Jr. Dies . Weil . Martin . The Washington Post . 1981-03-24.
  29. Web site: Nomination of John F. O'Leary to be Director of the Bureau of Mines . 1968-10-09 . 3 . . 2021-12-29.
  30. Web site: Sasscer, Lansdale Ghiselin, (1893 - 1964). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. December 21, 2012 .
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  44. News: James Mayo, Director Emeritus of Anacostia Museum, Dies . The Washington Post . July 16, 1995.
  45. News: Yates . Clinton . No longer worried about Cooperstown, Maury Wills enjoys induction into D.C. Sports Hall of Fame . The Washington Post . April 17, 2015 . en.

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