James Madison High School (New York)

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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, famous musicians, authors, sports players, a mafia hitman 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.

Academics

James Madison High School is organized in accordance with the House Model. There are eight houses at JMHS. Each House has a Teacher Coordinator, a Guidance Counselor, and an Assistant Principal assigned to supervise and assist students.

pecial Programs

Most students who apply to James Madison High School have the opportunity to apply into a specific "House". The most notable houses in Madison are
*Bio-Medical Institute- One of the top three houses in Madison, it is sometimes referred to as simply, Bio-Med. In this honor program, students who are interested in the Sciences take such classes as Biology, AP Biology, Chemistry, AP Chemistry, Physics, Pathology,Laboratory Techniques, and Computer Research. Students in this program are offered internships in health science facilities as well as the opportunity to participate in local and national science competitions.

*Math Academy-One of the top three houses in Madison, the Math Academy has students who are given the opportunity to study mathematics and computer science. Students in this House take some of the following classes: Advanced Placement Computer Science, Advanced Placement Calculus AB and Advanced Placement Calculus BC

*Law House- One of the top three houses in Madison, it is designed for successful Social Studies students. In addition to being taught reasoning and communication skills, the students develop an understanding of American Legal institutions. Students in the Law House take classes/participate in activities such as Model U.N, Mock Trial, Moot Court, We The People, Legal Economics,Criminology Advanced Placement Economics
**It is very common that students in these three Houses have the same classes together, because they are considered the Top Three Houses in Madison

Some of the other Houses include:
*Academy of Finance
*Information Technology House
*The Humanities House
*The International House (for students of Limited English proficiency)
*The Media Arts House
*Madison Academy of Community and Civil Service

pecial Classes

AP Classes

There are many AP classes offered at James Madison High School. These classes include
*AP Chemistry
*AP Biology
*AP Economics/AP Government
*AP Calculus AB
*AP Calculus BC
*AP Statistics
*AP Spanish
*AP English
*AP European History
*AP American History
*AP Physics
*AP Computer Science

Honor/Elective Classes

Along with these AP classes, Madison offerers a wide number of Honor/elective classes. Some of these include
*Business law
*Pre-Calculus
*European History Honors
*American History Honors
*Physics Honors
*Biology Honors
*Chemistry HonorsMadison also offers a wide number of music/art electives, which students are allowed and encouraged to take.

Extracurricular Activities

SING!, which is a student produced musical, has been a Madison tradition for many years. Students are split into two teams, Seniors/Sophomores and Juniors/Freshmen. Madison Offers a wide range of psal varsity and junior varsity sports. Student Union Government

Notable alumni

Throughout the History of James Madison High School, there have been a number of distinguished people who graduated from this school. These include:

*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
*Marc Calixte, Writer [WGAEast] /Director
*Andrew Dice Clay, Comedian
*Norm Coleman, US Senator (Minnesota)
*Stanley Cohen, Nobel Prize winner
*Art Edelstein, Journalist, Author, Recording Guitarist
*Stanley Engerman, economic historian; co-author with Nobel prize economist R. Fogel.
*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)
*Gary Pozner, Award Winning Composer, Recording Artist
*Ryan Raftery, Actor/Singer
*Chris Rock, Comedian
*Herb Rosenblum, Broadcast Journalist, Author
*Dmitriy Salita, Boxer, NABA Light-Welterweight Champion
*Bernard Sanders, U.S. Senator (Vermont)
*Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator (New York)
*Irwin Shaw, Novelist (deceased)
*Judge Judy Blum Sheindlin, Judge/TV Personality
*Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian.
*Claire Shulman Kantoff, Queens Borough President
*Janis Siegel, Singer
*Robert Solow, Nobel Prize Winner-Economics
*Frank Torre, Professional Baseball player
*Samuel O. Thier, Past President Brandeis University; Institute of Medicine
*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.

tatistics

*Total Student Population - 4,500
**Female - 1,788 = 45.94%
**Male - 2,104 = 54.06%

*Ethnicity
**American Indian - 5 = 0.17%
**Asian / Pac. Islan. - 625 = 16.06%
**Hispanic - 576 = 14.80%
**Black - 1,041 = 26.75%
**White - 1,628 = 41.83%
**Not Reported - 17 = 0.44%

*English Language Learners (ELL)
**ELL - 320 = 8.22%

*Special Education
**General Ed - 3,528 = 90.65%
**Least Restrictive Environment - 219 = 5.63%
**Most Restrictive Environment - 145 = 3.73%

**Updated - November 21st 2007 at 3:05 AM

Notes

External links

* [http://www.madisonhs.org James Madison High School]