Cardozo Senior High School
| Cardozo Education Campus | |
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The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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| Address | |
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1200 Clifton Street Northwest Washington, DC 20009 United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°55′19″N 77°01′42″W / 38.9219°N 77.0284°WCoordinates: 38°55′19″N 77°01′42″W / 38.9219°N 77.0284°W |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Established | 1928 |
| School district | District of Columbia Public Schools Ward 1 |
| Principal | Tanya S. Roane |
| Faculty | 63.0 (as of the 2011-12 school year) (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | 6 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 681 (as of 2013-14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.02 |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) |
Purple White |
| Mascot | Clerks |
| Website | cardozohs |
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.
Known locally as "the castle on the hill", Cardozo's iconic building was designed by architect William B. Ittner. Prior to 1949, it was known as Central High School, but was renamed when the school district assigned it for "colored" students in the segregated system. The school started as the Advanced Grammar School for Boys in 1877 and was then combined with a similar school for girls 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. In 1916, the school moved from Seventh and O to Thirteenth and Clifton. The U Street Metro station is partially named after this school, with "Cardozo" in the station's subtitle. 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, 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.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Cardozo High School's marching band was one of the best in Washington, DC, and won several band competitions. Due to their enormous popularity, the band was invited to participate in the Rose Bowl Parade in 1981.
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