Cardozo Education Campus

{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox school | name = Cardozo Education Campus | image = Cardozo2014.jpg | image_size = 275px | caption = The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places | motto = | coordinates = {{coord|38.9219|-77.0284|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | address = 1200 Clifton Street Northwest<ref name="GNIS">[https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:530896 GNIS entry for Cardozo Senior High School]; USGS; January 1, 2073.</ref> | city = Washington, DC | zipcode = 20009 | country = USA <!-- Do not link per MOS:OL --> | established = {{Start date and age|1928|p=1}} | schooltype = Public high school | district = District of Columbia Public Schools Ward 1 | grades = 6 to 12 | ceeb = 090075 | principal = Arthur Mola | campus_type = Urban | campus_size = | enrollment = 710 (as of SY2024-2025)<ref name="My School DC">{{cite web|url=https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/20 |title=DC School Report Card|work=dc.gov}}</ref> | faculty = 83.0 (as of the 2019-2020 school year) (on FTE basis)<ref name="OSSE">{{cite web|url=https://dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0454 |title=DC School Report Card|work=dc.gov|accessdate=June 16, 2020}}</ref> | ratio = 10.01<ref name="OSSE" /> | mascot = Clerks<ref>{{cite web|title=Ribbon Cutting Ceremony|url=http://www.cardozohs.com/ourpages/auto/2013/9/30/36388097/RibbonCuttingProgram.pdf|accessdate=July 29, 2015}}</ref> | colors = Purple, white <br> {{color box|purple|border=silver}}{{color box|white|border=silver}} | information = Metro Stop: U Street | website = {{URL|https://www.cardozoec.org/}} | module = {{Infobox NRHP |embed = yes |name = Cardozo Education Campus |nrhp_type = |locmapin = District of Columbia |built = {{Start date|1917}} |architect = William B. Ittner |architecture = Elizabethan Style |added = September 30, 1993 |area = |mpsub = Public School Buildings of Washington, DC MPS |refnum = 93001015 <ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a|refnum=93001015}}</ref> |designated_other1 = DCIHS |designated_other1_abbr = DCIHS |designated_other1_date = June 19, 1991 }} }} [[Image:Bush mural - ben's chili bowl (cropped).jpg|thumb|Then-U.S. President George W. Bush helping to paint a mural of local landmark Ben's Chili Bowl with City Year Americorps members at Cardozo.]]

'''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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1890-09-22/ed-1/seq-5.pdf|title=The High Schools|date=September 22, 1890|work=The Evening Star|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref> In 1916, the school moved from Seventh and O to Thirteenth and Clifton.

The school's first building was a three-story brick structure; therein lied scientific libraries, a teacher's lounge, a library, an exhibition hall, a military exercise space, and more than a dozen classrooms. Female students outnumbered their male counterparts 2-1. In late 1908, a study hall was established specifically for third-year boys, in hopes that the boys would become more masculine.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gage |first=Beverly |title=G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century |date=2022 |publisher=Viking Press |isbn=9780670025374 |pages=28 |language=en}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name="Beito">{{Cite journal |last=Beito |first=David |title=Zora and Eleanor: Toward a Fuller Understanding of the First Lady's Civil Rights Legacy|url=https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=14736|journal=Independent Institute |date=November 15, 2023}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Beito"/>

== 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.<ref>''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.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|title=New principal has big plans for Cardozo Senior High School|last=Abbas|first=Natasha|date=September 2007|work=DC North}}</ref> 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.<ref name="WMATA 2011 station renamings">{{cite press release |title=Station names updated for new map |publisher=Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |date=November 3, 2011 |url=http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=5081 |accessdate=November 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105211316/http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=5081 |archive-date=November 5, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

Until the 1954 opening of the all-black Luther Jackson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia,<ref name=LJMSHist>"[http://www.fcps.edu/LutherJacksonMS/history.html History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803174845/http://www.fcps.edu/LutherJacksonMS/history.html |date=2016-08-03 }}." Luther Jackson Middle School. Retrieved on June 4, 2016.</ref> 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.<ref>"[http://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10202005-102820/ 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.</ref>

300px|thumbnail|The view from Cardozo's parking deck: Florida Ave and Howard University to the southeast and U Street to the south.

==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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Emma|title=At Cardozo school, high hopes for a cultural transformation to match physical one|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/at-cardozo-school-high-hopes-for-a-cultural-transformation-to-match-physical-one/2013/08/26/e4801764-0c38-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|accessdate=August 19, 2014}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/25/archives/principals-aide-in-capital-is-killed-chasing-thieves.html|title = Principal's Aide in Capital is Killed Chasing Thieves|newspaper = The New York Times|date = January 25, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2006/09/23/cardozo-high-school-iii-span-classbankheadthree-shootings-since-1995-speak-to-lessons-ignoredspan/53fbca09-c4c7-4259-9555-1cebab1d2af7/| title = Cardozo High School III <span class="bankhead">Three shootings since 1995 speak to lessons ignored.</span> - The Washington Post|newspaper = The Washington Post}}</ref>

==Notable alumni== '''Central High School''' * Beatrice Aitchison, mathematician<ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Judy |last2=LaDuke |first2=Jeanne |date=2009 |title=Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRbOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 |location=Providence, RI |publisher=American Mathematical Society |page=120 |isbn=978-0-8218-4376-5 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * Caleb T. Bailey, United States Marine Corps brigadier general<ref>{{cite news |date=July 31, 1923 |title=Marine Commission Won By U.M. Athlete |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100310897/marine-commission/ |work=The Evening Star |location=Washington, DC |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * Sylvia Bernstein, civil rights activist<ref name=WPObit>{{Cite news|title=Activist Sylvia Bernstein Dies at 88 |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 25, 2003 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/11/25/activist-sylvia-bernstein-dies-at-88/5a794f52-294c-409b-9c3f-77f36f243663/ }}</ref> * Selma Munter Borchardt (1895– 1968), educator, lawyer, labor leader and lobbyist<ref>{{cite book |last= Sicherman | first= Barbara|year= 1980|title= Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=CfGHM9KU7aEC|access-date= October 29, 2022|location= Cambridge, MA| publisher= Harvard University Press | page= 92| isbn=978-0-674-62733-8}}</ref> * William G. Draper, US Air Force pilot<ref>{{cite news |title=Eisenhower Pilot Found Hanged In Home in a Washington Suburb; Served General in 1950 to '61—Wife Says Heart Attack Left Draper Despondent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/26/archives/eisenhower-pilot-found-hanged-in-home-in-a-washington-suburb-served.html |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1964}}</ref> * George Dantzig, mathematician<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holley |first1=Joe |title=Vanguard Mathematician George Dantzig Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/05/19/vanguard-mathematician-george-dantzig-dies/075f8bd1-8641-402f-aab0-7d3156bbff2b/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 19, 2005}}</ref> * Pat Foote, U.S. Army brigadier general<ref>{{cite news |last=Garrett |first=Nancy |date=February 1, 1987 |title=Durham Native Wears Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100311325/wears-star/ |work=The Herald-Sun |location=Durham, NC |page=D1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * Charles D. Griffin, Navy admiral<ref>{{cite news |title=Charles Griffin, Admiral, Allied Commander, Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/06/27/charles-griffin-admiral-allied-commander-dies/8168ef1f-0dfd-4b25-9e94-5df61ab0b5f9/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 27, 1996}}</ref> * Herbert Haft, founder of Dart Drug and Crown Books discount chains<ref>Wikipedia article, and obituary</ref> * J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lydon |first1=Christopher |title=J. Edgar Hoover Made the F.B.I. Formidable With Politics, Publicity and Results |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/03/archives/j-edgar-hoover-made-the-fbi-formidable-with-politics-publicity-and.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 3, 1972}}</ref> * Miles Imlay, U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/All/Article/1879170/rear-admiral-miles-h-imlay/|title=Rear Admiral Miles H. Imlay|publisher=United States Coast Guard}}</ref> * Yvonne Levy Kushner, actress<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituaries |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/02/09/obituaries/7fc3ff3d-f377-42a9-8d2b-511b3b348c91/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 9, 1990}}</ref> * Robert B. Luckey, Marine Corps general<ref>{{cite web |title=Lieutenant General Robert Burneston Luckey |url=https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/People/Whos-Who-in-Marine-Corps-History/Jackson-Lyle/Lieutenant-General-Robert-Burneston-Luckey/ |website=Marine Corps History Division |publisher=Marine Corps University |accessdate=August 19, 2020}}</ref> * Bruce Magruder (1903), U.S. Army major general<ref>{{cite book |date=1967 |title=Here's to Old Central, 1882-1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cA47AAAAMAAJ&q=%22bruce+magruder+%2703%22 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Central High School Alumni Association |page=51 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * John S. McCain Jr., Navy admiral<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/03/24/adm-john-s-mccain-jr-dies/1d4b5cb0-12f6-493e-9189-164645bd37af/ |title=Adm. John S. McCain Jr. Dies |last=Weil |first=Martin |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 24, 1981}}</ref> * John F. O'Leary, U.S. government official<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-90shrg21478/pdf/CHRG-90shrg21478.pdf |title=Nomination of John F. O'Leary to be Director of the Bureau of Mines |date=October 9, 1968 |page=3 |publisher=United States Government Publishing Office |access-date=December 29, 2021}}</ref> * Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000067|title=Sasscer, Lansdale Ghiselin, (1893 - 1964)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= December 21, 2012 }}</ref> * John F. Shafroth Jr., U.S. Navy vice admiral<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10677868 |title=Person Authority Record, Shafroth, J. F. (John Franklin), 1887-1967 |website=National Archives Catalog |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |location=Washington, DC |access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref> * Alfred Sao-ke Sze, Chinese politician and diplomat<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boorman |first1=Howard L. |last2=Cheng |first2=Joseph K. H. |last3=Krompart |first3=Janet |title=Biographical Dictionary of Republican China |year=1967 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-08957-9 |page=124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3AJFusMHJwC |language=en}}</ref> * Oliver Lyman Spaulding (1891), U.S. Army brigadier general<ref>{{cite book |date=1921 |title=Who's Who In the Nation's Capital |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojlMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA366 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Consolidated Publishing Company |page=366 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * Donald A. Stroh, U.S. Army major general<ref name="Beckers">{{cite web |url=https://9thinfantrydivision.net/donald-a-stroh/ |title=Biography, Donald A. Stroh |last=Stumpf |first=Robert E. |date=2018 |website=9th Infantry Division In WW2 |publisher=Yuri Beckers |location=Copenhagen, Denmark |access-date=June 2, 2024}}</ref> * Robert Trout, American radio and television journalist<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/11/15/cbs-radio-newsman-robert-trout-91-dies/38e361ab-df5a-4ffd-a289-20484aff83d1/ Bernstein, Adam. "CBS Radio Newsman Robert Trout, 91, Dies," ''The Washington Post'', Wednesday, November 15, 2000.] Retrieved July 17, 2023.</ref> * Karl Truesdell, U.S. Army major general<ref name="Woodburn">{{cite magazine |editor-last=Woodburn |editor-first=Thos. B. |date=August 1937 |title=Former Private Commands Fort Jay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRWJXA-56KwC&pg=RA19-PA11 |magazine=Recruiting News |location=Governors Island, NY |publisher=Recruiting Publicity Bureau, U.S. Army |page=11 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * Arthur Cutts Willard, engineer and university president<ref>{{cite news |date=March 25, 1934 |title=New University of Illinois Head a Washington Native |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100312464/university-head/ |work=The Evening Star |location=Washington, DC |page=A-10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * Eben Eveleth Winslow, U.S. Army brigadier general<ref>{{cite news |date=December 27, 1883 |title=The Class of '82 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117015288/class-of-82/ |work=National Republican |location=Washington, DC |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * Ben Steiner, American Major League Baseball Player * <ref>{{cite news |date=October 24, 1896 |title=High School Cadets |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117015956/cadets/ |work=The Evening Star |location=Washington, DC |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> '''Cardozo Senior High''' * H. R. Crawford (1957), politician<ref>{{cite news |title=Former D.C. Councilman H.R. Crawford Remembered |url=https://www.washingtoninformer.com/former-d-c-councilman-h-r-crawford-remembered/ |work=The Washington Informer |date=February 18, 2017}}</ref> * Marvin Gaye, musician<ref>{{cite news |last1=Delgadillo |first1=Natalie |title=Marvin Gaye Remembered In D.C. 35 Years After His Death |url=https://wamu.org/story/19/04/03/marvin-gaye-remembered-in-d-c-35-years-after-his-death/ |work=WAMU |date=April 3, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Anwan Glover, musician * Petey Green, radio host<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wills |first1=John T. |title=Remembering The Mayor Of P-Town: Petey Green |url=http://thecertainonesmagazine.com/remembering-the-mayor-of-p-town-petey-green/ |accessdate=August 19, 2020 |work=The Certain Ones Magazine}}</ref> * Edward P. Jones, author * Moochie Norris, basketball player<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beamon |first1=Todd |title=Working It Out On The Court |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/08/14/working-it-out-on-the-court/c38cf95b-13ae-446b-8574-379acff4cd4e/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 14, 1997}}</ref> * James E. Mayo, museum director<ref>{{cite news |title=James Mayo, Director Emeritus of Anacostia Museum, Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/07/16/james-mayo-director-emeritus-of-anacostia-museum-dies/3c24a648-3ed7-49d9-a8a3-429992a4a9f5/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=July 16, 1995}}</ref> * Conrad Tillard (born 1964), politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and activist * Maury Wills, baseball player<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yates |first1=Clinton |title=No longer worried about Cooperstown, Maury Wills enjoys induction into D.C. Sports Hall of Fame |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/04/17/no-longer-worried-about-cooperstown-maury-wills-enjoys-induction-into-d-c-sports-hall-of-fame/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 17, 2015 |language=en}}</ref>

==Notable faculty== * Marie Taylor (1911–1990), former biology teacher, first woman to earn a science doctorate at Fordham University, and former chair of the Botany Department at Howard University<ref name="Dupree 2021">{{cite web |last=Dupree |first=Gus |title=Remembering the Legacy of Marie Clark Taylor, Ph.D., a Trailblazing Female Botanist of Color |website=The Observer |date=December 8, 2021 |url=https://fordhamobserver.com/66452/recent/sports-and-health/remembering-the-legacy-of-marie-clark-taylor-ph-d-a-trailblazing-female-botanist-of-color/ |access-date=May 11, 2025}}</ref>

==Feeder patterns== {{more citations needed section|date=November 2022}} The following elementary schools feed into Cardozo: * Marie Reed Elementary School * Cleveland Elementary School * Garrison Elementary School * Raymond Education Campus * School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens * Seaton Elementary School * Ross Elementary School

The following middle schools feed into Cardozo: * Raymond Education Campus * School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens

==References== {{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|United States|Schools}} <!-- this 'empty' section displays references defined elsewhere --> {{reflist}}

== External links == {{commons category|Cardozo High School}} * {{Official website|https://www.cardozoec.org/}}

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