JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL (NEW YORK)

'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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Notable alumni

Statistics

Notes

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.

Statistics

★ Total Student Population - 4,500

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★ Female - 1,848 = 46.15%

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★ Male - 2,156 = 53.85%

★ Ethnicity

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★ American Indian - 7 = 0.17%

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★ Asian / Pac. Islam - 638 = 15.93%

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★ Hispanic - 497 = 12.41%

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★ Black - 916 = 22.88%

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★ White - 1,880 = 46.95%

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★ Not Reported - 66 = 1.65%

★ English Language Learners (ELL)

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★ ELL - 317 = 7.92%

★ Special Education

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★ General Ed - 3,688 = 92.11%

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★ Least Restrictive Environment - 189 = 4.72%

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★ Most Restrictive Environment - 127 = 3.17%

Notes

1. Nobel Prize laureates by secondary school affiliation